Movers & Shakers: November 23, 2017


Botswana: DCI unch, USD 61.53k

Not the best of days in Gaborone with Barclays ($23k) being 39% of the market while BTCL ($21k) accounting for 35% of todays turnover.

Kenya: NSE 20 -0.33%, USD8.12m

The positive run in Kenya came to a halt as profit takers participated more in the market today. Safcom dominated the action on the day accounting for 52% of the turnover as it dropped 5.4%. Foreign participation on the day reduced from 51% to 47%.

Mauritius: Semdex +0.11%, USD 3.58m

The Semdex strengthened with Rs121.8m changing hands geared towards MCBG which declined 0.2% trading at Rs275.00 accounting for 43% of total market turnover,38% of which was foreign purchasing and 46% was foreign sales. SBM was at Rs7.60 retreating 0.5%, NMH traded at Rs25.00 unchaged and MUA followed suit at Rs59.00.

Nigeria: ASI +0.22%, USD17.87m

Another positive day dominated by block trades in Zenith ($6.2m), UBA ($3.1m), Access ($2.7m) and Guaranty ($1.5m). All indices except the Industrials closed higher on the day.

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials -4.40%, USD 6m

A semi decent day, relatively speaking, in Harare with strong selling pressure amid scattered purchasing in selected stocks. The usual suspects dominating proceedings on the bourse seeing Delta (1.2503c, $1.3m) and Econet (86.00c, $726k) with the likes of PPC (189.79c, $1.9m) joining the fray accounting for 32% of total market turnover.

African Currencies

                       
  AFRICA STOCK EXCHANGE PERFORMANCE     CURRENCIES  
                       
  Country Index 2-Nov-17 YTD %     Country Notation 11/2+K39/2017 YTD %  
  Botswana DCI 8900.04 -8.25%     Botswana BWP 10.41 2.67  
  Egypt CASE 30 14106.17 14.28%     Egypt EGP 17.72 2.30  
  Kenya NSE 20 3826.76 20.10%     Ghana GHS 4.62 -10.94  
  Malawi MASI 20722.59 55.57%     Kenya KES 103.20 -0.71  
  Mauritius SEMDEX 2222.47 22.90%     Morocco MAD 9.40 7.67  
    SEM 10 423.87 22.85%     Mauritius MUR 33.97 5.87  
  Morocco MASI 12561.83 7.88%     Nigeria NGN 359.93 -12.39  
  Nigeria NSI 36688.75 36.52%     Rwanda RWF 852.50 -3.58  
  Tanzania TSI 3830.17 4.14%     Tunisia TND 2.49 -7.24  
  Rwanda RSI 132.32 3.98%     Tanzania TZS 2,244.00 -2.81  
  Uganda USE ALSI 1777.69 20.33%     Uganda UGX 3,632.32 -0.99  
  Zambia LUSE All Share 5212.32 25.34%     BRVM XOF 570.25 10.47  
  Zimbabwe Industrial Index 315.12 116.43%     South Africa ZAR 13.89 -1.06  
    Mining Index 129.79 121.83%     Zimbabwe *OMIR 1.83 34.31  
              *Zimbabwe Old Mutial Implied Rate    

 

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