Movers & Shakers: November 01, 2017


Botswana: DCI unch, USD 111k

Another relatively uneventful day in Gaborone today with activity heavily focused on Letshego ($100k).

Kenya: NSE 20 +0.81%, USD 11.96m

Clearly the dust has settled from all the political uncertainty of the re-elections in Kenya with foreigners assuming 68.5% of sales and 40.9% of purchases on the Nairobi bourse as most counters saw green. Safaricom was up 0.98% trading at KES25.75 accounting for a quarter of the market turnover, EABL was unchanged at KES244.00 while KCB and Equity both advancing 3.29% and 7.24% respectively.

Mauritius: Closed for the day.

Nigeria: ASI +0.56%, USD 14.45m

Not a bad day at all with a the stock exchange being dominated by a number a huge crosses, seeing the banking and consumers in ended the in positive territory closing 0.18% and 0.01% respectively. Mobil (+3.87%, N161.00) about 30% of the market, Stanbic (-2.61%, N42.50), NB (unch, N150.00), GTB (+0.36%, N41.85) and Zenith (+1.49, N25.87) were the major movers on the day with some decent activity.

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials +0.26%, USD 7.50m

Today’s turnover was skewed by a handful of securities including OML ($2.5m), Econet ($2m) and Innscor ($1.64m). The industrial index closed marginally higher on the back of gains in Delta, OKZ and Simbisa.

African Currencies

                       
  AFRICA STOCK EXCHANGE PERFORMANCE     CURRENCIES  
                       
  Country Index 1-Nov-17 YTD %     Country Notation 1-Nov-17 YTD %  
  Botswana DCI 8917.34 -8.08%     Botswana BWP 10.54 1.39  
  Egypt CASE 30 14277.29 15.66%     Egypt EGP 17.64 2.73  
  Kenya NSE 20 3759.67 18.00%     Ghana GHS 4.43 -7.12  
  Malawi MASI 20049.06 50.51%     Kenya KES 103.75 -1.23  
  Mauritius SEMDEX 2198.00 21.55%     Morocco MAD 9.52 6.33  
    SEM 10 420.33 21.82%     Mauritius MUR 34.20 5.18  
  Morocco MASI 12385.44 6.37%     Nigeria NGN 358.35 -12.01  
  Nigeria NSI 36887.20 37.26%     Rwanda RWF 852.00 -3.52  
  Tanzania TSI 3838.53 4.37%     Tunisia TND 2.52 -8.03  
  Rwanda RSI 133.90 5.22%     Tanzania TZS 2,244.50 -2.83  
  Uganda USE ALSI 1690.63 14.43%     Uganda UGX 3,650.83 -1.49  
  Zambia LUSE All Share 5127.27 23.30%     BRVM XOF 590.60 6.66  
  Zimbabwe Industrial Index 523.22 259.35%     South Africa ZAR 14.13 -2.75  
    Mining Index 138.27 136.32%     Zimbabwe *OMIR 5.59 309.49  
              *Zimbabwe Old Mutial Implied Rate        

 

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