Movers & Shakers: March 09, 2016


Botswana: DCI unch, USD 73k

Nothing to report from Gaborone.

Kenya: NSE 20 +0.25%, USD 9.0m

Another decent day in Nairobi as foreigners continue to dominate proceedings. There were a few decent crosses in EABL as the brewer managed to gain +0.4% on 1.4m shares. KNCB closed the day unchanged as foreigners dominated both sides of the name with 4.4m shares changing hands. The usually illiquid BMBC was relatively active as 535k shares traded. Safcom continued to fall as the telco closed the day -0.3% lower on 5.7m shares. EQBNK managed to recoup some of its losses from yesterday after releasing results with the name gaining +1.8%.

Mauritius: Semdex -0.08%, USD 760k

Things slowed down in Port Louis today with some small activity in MCBG (71k shares) and SBMH (5m shares) while the rest of the market was rather quiet.

Nigeria: ASI +0.51%, USD 6.7m

Much of the same once again in Lagos as market participants continue to sit on the sidelines. There was some activity in WAPCO ($1m) while there was nothing else of significance from an activity point of view worth mentioning. Banks closed the day higher with the sector gaining +0.56% thanks to Access (+2.78%) and Zenith (+1.72%). Consumers (+0.40%) were also stronger thanks to Unilever (+1.82%) and NB (+1.00%).

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials +0.61%, USD 987k

A better day in terms of activity in Harare thanks to some activity in NatFoods ($492k), Innscor ($319k) and National Tyre Services ($102k).

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

15.37

0.65

Nigeria

NGN

199.05

0.13

Kenya

KES

101.57

0.71

Mauritius

MUR

35.80

0.14

Botswana

BWP

11.16

0.56

Tanzania

TZS

2188.00

-1.77

Uganda

UGX

3363.00

0.27

Rwanda

RWF

778.25

-4.27

Ghana

GHS

3.85

-1.17

BRVM

XOF

609.10

1.56

Egypt

EGP

7.83

-0.04

Morocco

MAD

9.86

0.72

Tunisia

TNF

2.04

-0.01

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