Movers & Shakers: May 13, 2015


Botswana: DCI 0.18%, USD 2.1m

Lethego, FNBB and BIHL were the most actively traded names. Letshego closed unchanged after the counter traded a total of 5.7m shares.

Kenya: NSE 20 -0.65%, USD 12.2m

Current sentiments continued in the market as foreigners accounted for 83.7% of activity. Safaricom reached a 4 week low of KES16.10 after the counter lost 3.3% on the back of foreign selling. Other notable losers included KCB (-0.9%, KES57.50), EABL (-1.3%, KES306) and ARM (-0.6%, KES77.50). BAT and Scangroup closed firm at KES773 (+3.5%) and KES42.25 (1.8%) respectively.

Mauritius: Semdex -0.86%, USD 1.8m

Turnover was mainly geared towards PBL (+3.3%, Rs310), NMH (+4.1%, Rs63) and SBM (3.2%, Rs0.96). SBM remains the most actively traded name on the bourse as the counter traded a total of 11.4m shares. MCB had a slow day as the counter traded a total of 39k shares to close unchanged at Rs203.

Nigeria: ASI +0.27%, USD 16.8m

The index closed off strong today due to price gains in Banking stocks Zenith Bank (+2.48%, N21.50), ETI (+2.33%, N21.50), GTB (+1.99%, N29.70), Diamond Bank (+1.11%, N4.55) and UBA (+0.39%, N5.15) The banking index was up 1.26%. The Consumer index closed up 0.30% on the back of gains in Guinness (+3.23%, N160) and 7up (+5%, N170.10). Top value trades included FBN ($3.3m), UBA ($2.6m) and GTB ($1.1m).

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials +0.45%, USD 1.4m

Delta (unch, 105c), Econet (+0.07%, 46.03c) and Innscor (unch, 60c) were the most actively traded names in the session. The counters traded a total of 333k, 869k and 701k shares respectively. Overall gain in the index was due to increase demand.

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

11.87

-2.58

Nigeria

NGN

199.00

-7.81

Kenya

KES

96.40

-6.02

Mauritius

MUR

35.07

-9.48

Botswana

BWP

9.72

-2.19

Tanzania

TZS

2015.00

-14.00

Uganda

UGX

2993.00

-7.42

Rwanda

RWF

696.74

-1.00

Ghana

GHS

3.88

-17.18

BRVM

XOF

580.96

-6.70

Egypt

EGP

7.63

-6.36

Morocco

MAD

9.62

-5.70

Tunisia

TND

1.91

-2.51

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