Movers & Shakers: March 02, 2015


Botswana: DCI unch, USD 605k

Turnover was mainly geared towards Sefalana. The stock traded a total of 538k shares mainly between the 1075t and 1100t levels.

Kenya: NSE 20 -0.79%, USD 5.1m

There was a clear and utter lack of interest in Kenya with foreign activity also low and skewed to the sell side. There was some mild activity in Safcom (-30bps, KES15.85) and KNCB (unch, KES60.50). Equity Bank (-1.9%, KES51.00) and EABL (-30bps, KES324.00) were much quieter while the rest of the market was dull.

Mauritius: Semdex -0.32%, USD 1.6m

The index closed the week off at 1,955.90 points. MCBG lost 0.8% to close down at Rs195.00 after trading a total of 98k shares, whilst its banking competitor- SBM traded a colossal 4.1m shares closing down at Rs0.97(-1.0%).

Nigeria: ASI +0.31%, USD 10.6m

A dire end to a dire week in Lagos. For most of the session it was like watching paint dry until some panic trading in the last half hour increased volumes. Banks closed marginally weak and volumes were low across the sector. The most active names were FBNH (-1.66%, N7.70), GTB (+4.09%, N22.90) and Zenith (-3%, N16.49). Conaumsers gained 1.08% for the day with the only volumes taking place in NB (+38bps, N131.50), Guinness (unch, N126) and Nestle (+3.69%, N829.50).

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials +0.20%, USD 679k

Turnover was mainly geared towards Econet (Unch, 52c), Delta (Unch, 109c) and Seedco (Unch, 106c). Counters traded a total of 316k, 93k and 118k shares respectively. Top gainers of the day were Innscor (+2.75%) and Old mutual (+0.84%), while BAT and MASH were amongst the losers, shedding 0.85% and 9.09% respectively.

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

12.25

-5.59

Nigeria

NGN

199.75

-8.16

Kenya

KES

92.00

-1.52

Mauritius

MUR

36.15

-12.17

Botswana

BWP

10.01

-5.00

Tanzania

TZS

1850.00

-6.32

Uganda

UGX

2905.00

-4.61

Rwanda

RWF

707.60

-2.51

Ghana

GHS

3.75

-14.20

BRVM

XOF

617.08

-12.15

Egypt

EGP

7.63

-6.29

Morocco

MAD

10.01

-9.39

Tunisia

TND

1.95

-4.87

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