Movers & Shakers: March 03, 2016


Botswana: DCI -0.16%, USD 391k

An extremely dull day outside of some crossing in the normally very illiquid Engen (8.00).

Kenya: NSE 20 -0.01%, USD 7.1m

Another decent day in Nairobi as foreigners remain net buyers with a net inflow of $918k. Safcom continued its strong run on foreign demand with the telco gaining +2.1% on 26.7m shares. KNCB (+0.6%) closed higher again today on local demand as 4.6m shares traded while banking counterpart EQBNK had a very strong day and gained +2.5% on 754k shares.

Mauritius: Semdex +0.14%, USD 1.2m

Another day of decent activity in the Indian Ocean Island. The major activity was once again focused on the banks with SBMH closing unchanged at Rs0.68 and MCBG gaining 40bps to Rs212.00.

Nigeria: ASI +1.65%, USD 11.3m

Activity continued to increase today, but remained well below par with some activity in Zenith ($2.6m), NB ($2.1m) and GTB ($2.1m). DangCem continues its strong run and closed the day +5% higher. Banks had another decent day with the sector gaining +1.70% thanks to some strength in UBA (+6.71%) and Access (+4.81%). Consumers (-1.14%) closed the day lower with some pressure on 7UP (-5.00%) and NB (-3.73%).

Please note that the index figure above is correct at the time of writing.

Zimbabwe: Industrials -0.12%, USD 759k

A much more active day in Harare than what we have been seeing in recent times. There were crosses in OKZ (3.52c) and Innscor (18.08c).

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

15.72

-1.60

Nigeria

NGN

199.05

0.13

Kenya

KES

101.50

0.87

Mauritius

MUR

35.95

-0.28

Botswana

BWP

11.31

-0.79

Tanzania

TZS

2189.70

-1.84

Uganda

UGX

3354.00

0.54

Rwanda

RWF

746.73

-0.23

Ghana

GHS

3.88

-1.98

BRVM

XOF

611.76

1.11

Egypt

EGP

7.82

0.05

Morocco

MAD

9.89

0.53

Tunisia

TNF

2.05

-0.28

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