Movers & Shakers: May 25, 2017


Botswana: Closed for the day.

Kenya: NSE 20 +1.02%, USD 10.0m

A very solid day from an activity point of view in Nairobi thanks to some action in Safcom ($4.69m) with the telco closing +2.38% higher while there was also some solid action in KNCB ($2.95) as the the banking giant closed +1.27% higher. Elswhere, there was some small activity in EABL ($700k), but nothing worth writing home about.

Mauritius: Semdex +0.25%, USD 1.1m

Another average day on the activity front in Port Louis with some small activity in Sanlam, Alteo and NMH driving proceedings.

Nigeria: ASI +0.64%, USD 15.7m

A better day in Lagos, but still nothing to get too overly excited about with crosses in the likes of GTB ($5.5m), Stanbic ($2.5m), Access ($2.5m), Zenith ($1.3m) and Nestle ($1m) driving proceedings. Banking stocks closed the day higher with the sector gaining +1.72% thanks to Stanbic (+4.00%), GTB (+3.07%) and Zenith (+1.17%). Consumers (+0.18%) closed slightly higher thanks to Nestle (+2.35%).

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

Zimbabwe: Closed for the day.

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

12.89

6.62

Nigeria

NGN

315.50

-0.02

Kenya

KES

103.33

-0.79

Mauritius

MUR

34.75

3.53

Botswana

BWP

10.24

4.27

Tanzania

TZS

2225.55

-2.00

Uganda

UGX

3609.00

-0.23

Rwanda

RWF

827.77

-0.70

Ghana

GHS

4.38

-3.31

BRVM

XOF

587.21

7.28

Egypt

EGP

18.10

0.24

Morocco

MAD

9.75

3.90

Tunisia

TND

2.46

-5.15

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