Movers & Shakers: March 23, 2015


Botswana: DCI +0.20%, USD 609k

Turnover was mainly geared towards Choppies ($2.9k), Letshego ($2.9k) and Sefalana($599k).

Kenya: NSE 20 -0.73%, USD 6.2m

An average start to the week as turnover amounted to $6.2m as locals dominated proceedings. KNCB (-0.8%) closed lower on the back of foreign selling with 2.44m shares changing hands on the day. Local buying interest drove EABL +0.3% higher as 326k shares traded in the brewer. Locals dominated both sides of Safcom as the telco gained +0.3% on 4.79m shares. EQBNK (-3.4%) came under some serious pressure today on foreign selling as 1.04m shares traded.

Mauritius: Semdex +0.31%, USD 1.2m

The banking stocks closed the session off unchanged, MCBG reached a low of Rs29.00 before closing at Rs29.05 on the back of 24k shares traded. SMB closed flat at Rs0.97.

Nigeria: ASI +0.58%, USD 28.3m

A decent start to the week in Lagos from an activity point of view as turnover amounted to $28.3m thanks to large crosses in the likes of Nestle ($5.17m), Mansard ($4.68m), Zenith ($2.98m), UBN ($2.71m) and ETI ($2.64m). Banks had a good start to the week with the sector gaining +1.39% thanks to UBA (+4.82%), ETI (+4.05%) and FBNH (+3.90%). Consumers (-0.27%) closed lower with UACN (-5.00%) and Cadbury (-4.97%) dragging the sector lower.

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials -0.54%, USD 364k

The market started the week on a depressed note with respect to activity. Top movers were Delta (Unch, 109c), Ok Zim (-5.71%, 13.20c) and TSL (-4.17%, 23c), each counter contributed $113k, $15k and $99k towards total turnover respectively.

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

11.92

2.99

Nigeria

NGN

199.70

-8.14

Kenya

KES

91.95

-1.47

Mauritius

MUR

36.65

-13.37

Botswana

BWP

9.87

-3.52

Tanzania

TZS

1848.25

-6.24

Uganda

UGX

2960.00

-6.39

Rwanda

RWF

715.04

-3.53

Ghana

GHS

3.79

-15.10

BRVM

XOF

600.77

-9.77

Egypt

EGP

7.62

-6.25

Morocco

MAD

9.83

-7.64

Tunisia

TND

1.93

-3.45

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