Movers & Shakers: May 20, 2015


Botswana: DCI +0.04%, USD 251k

Another slow day on the bourse.

Kenya: NSE 20 +0.19%, USD 6.6m

The market continued its slow run as Safaricom and EABL accounted for the bulk of activity (54.5%). The counters closed firm at KES16.60 (+0.6%) and KES305 (0.3%) after trading a total of 10.6m and 550k shares respectively. Other gainers included KCB (+1.7%, KES59) and Stanchart (+4.6%, KES319) whilst BAT and Co-op Bank closed unchanged at KES772 and KES22 respectively.

Mauritius: Semdex -0.30%, USD 1.2m

SBM continues to be the most actively traded counter on the bourse. The name closed unchanged at Rs0.95 after trading a total of 4.6m shares. MCBG retreated 0.6% to close at Rs205 after trading 19.7k shares. CEIL was the second highest traded name in the session as the counter traded a total of 2.2m shares to closed flat at Rs6.94.

Nigeria: ASI -0.21%, USD 20.9m

A better day from a turnover point of view. Gains in ETI (+1.85%, N22), Access Bank (+1.11%, N6.35) and Skye Bank (+9.66%, N2.61) pushed the Banking index 0.07% higher. The Consumer index depreciated by 0.60% due to losses in sector heavies Unilever (-0.13%, N41.57) and NB (-1.90%, N154). Top value trades included GTB ($3.3m), UBA ($1.3m) and Zenith Bank ($3.1m), Intbrew ($1.2m) and NB ($1.7m). Overall most counters traded low volumes as NB, Intbrew, Zenith Bank and Presco were the only names to register significant crosses.

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials +0.16%, USD 611k

Paltry trades across the board as Afdis (unch, 50c), Mash (unch, 3c) and Old Mutual (0.40%, 251c) were the significant contributors. Econet and Delta traded a total of 52k and 8.5k shares to close at 50c and 105c respectively.

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

11.91

-2.87

Nigeria

NGN

199.13

-7.87

Kenya

KES

96.60

-6.21

Mauritius

MUR

35.15

-9.68

Botswana

BWP

9.79

-2.71

Tanzania

TZS

2030.00

-14.63

Uganda

UGX

2990.00

-7.32

Rwanda

RWF

686.61

+0.47

Ghana

GHS

3.98

-19.26

BRVM

XOF

591.12

-8.29

Egypt

EGP

7.63

-6.29

Morocco

MAD

9.73

-6.87

Tunisia

TND

1.94

-3.99

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