Movers & Shakers: March 04, 2016


Botswana: DCI -0.17%, USD 15k

Absolutely nothing to report from Gaborone.

Kenya: NSE 20 +1.25%, USD 2.8m

An extremely slow day to end the week in Nairobi as locals dominated proceedings and accounted for 59.3% of activity. Safcom continued to rally on foreign demand as the telco gained +0.6% on 4.9m shares. The two major banking stocks closed the day very strong with EQBNK gaining +4.9% while KNCB gained +1.8%.

Mauritius: Semdex -0.05%, USD 480k

Not much on the go on the last trading day of the week in Port Louis with some small activity in MCBG as 21k shares changed hands.

Nigeria: ASI +0.01%, USD 7.4m

Another slow day to end the week in Lagos with some activity in GTB ($3.4m) the only name breaking the $1m mark. The banking sector continued its move higher with the sector gaining +0.24% thanks to some strength in Zenith (+1.93%). Consumers (-0.03%) closed the day ever so slightly lower on tiny volume as Dangote Sugar (-1.34%) came under pressure.

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials -0.02%, USD 443k

Another lethargic day in Harare with just some small trades going through in OKZ (3.53c) and Delta (55.25c).

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

15.61

-0.91

Nigeria

NGN

199.25

0.03

Kenya

KES

101.34

0.93

Mauritius

MUR

35.78

0.20

Botswana

BWP

11.27

-0.11

Tanzania

TZS

2190.00

-1.86

Uganda

UGX

3375.00

-0.09

Rwanda

RWF

746.64

-0.22

Ghana

GHS

3.88

-1.93

BRVM

XOF

608.49

1.64

Egypt

EGP

7.84

-0.11

Morocco

MAD

9.85

0.85

Tunisia

TNF

2.04

-0.01

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