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Movers & Shakers: May 04, 2016
Botswana: DCI +0.04%, USD 561k
A nice bit of action spread across Sefalana (1330t), BTCL (114t) and Letshego (267t).
Kenya: NSE 20 -0.82%, USD 5.1m
Another quiet day in Kenya. The main action took place in Equity Bank which saw both foreign buying and selling – the bank eventually closed unchanged at KES40.00. There was also some nice activity going on in Safcom with the telco eventually settling at KES16.90 (-30bps). Outside of KNCB (-5.4%, KES39.25) the rest of the market was uneventful.
Mauritius: Semdex +0.08%, USD 940k
Activity trying to return to the Mauritian bourse. The main action, as always, was in MCBG with the banking group gaining 20bps to Rs212.00.
Nigeria: ASI ASI -0.58%, USD 11.3m
The bourse gave back some of its gains from yesterday while we witnessed a number of decent crosses. The banks were generally soft as the sector fell by 1%. There was decent action in FBNH (-85bps, N3.50) and Zenith (+15bps, N12.99). The consumers closed marginally higher with Nestle (+25bps, N680) seeing some good volumes through a number of crosses.
Please note that the index figure above is correct at the time of writing.
Zimbabwe: Industrials +0.32%, USD 1.25m
The ZSE continues to rally with some nice volumes going through in Natfoods (210c), Econet (25.48c) and Delta (71.11c).
African Currencies
|
Country |
Notation |
Currency |
YTD % |
|
South Africa |
ZAR |
14.89 |
3.84 |
|
Nigeria |
NGN |
198.50 |
0.40 |
|
Kenya |
KES |
100.88 |
1.41 |
|
Mauritius |
MUR |
35.30 |
1.56 |
|
Botswana |
BWP |
10.85 |
-3.31 |
|
Tanzania |
TZS |
2191.00 |
-1.90 |
|
Uganda |
UGX |
3320.00 |
1.57 |
|
Rwanda |
RWF |
750.25 |
-0.67 |
|
Ghana |
GHS |
3.81 |
-0.13 |
|
BRVM |
XOF |
580.84 |
6.49 |
|
Egypt |
EGP |
8.88 |
-11.85 |
|
Morocco |
MAD |
9.58 |
3.63 |
|
Tunisia |
TNF |
2.00 |
1.97 |
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