Movers & Shakers: November 25, 2014


Botswana: DCI unch, USD 567k

Some activity in Letshego (268t) and FNBB (360t) about the only excitement in Gaborone today.

Kenya: NSE 20 -0.16%, USD 8.7m

A much better day in terms of activity as turnover increased to $8.7m thanks to increased foreign participation (56.8%). Foreign demand (99% of purchases) in Safcom drove the telco +0.7% higher as 17.65m shares traded. Purchases were evenly split between locals and foreigners in EABL as the brewer gained +0.7% on 449k shares. The theme continued in KNCB and EQBNK as the former closed unchanged while the latter fell -2.1% with foreigners still clearly favouring KNCB.

Mauritius: Semdex -0.05%, USD 2.11m

The Sem-10 shed 26bps today with weakness in SBMH (-96bps, Rs1.03), Gamma Civic (-1.6%, Rs46.00) and Alteo (-73bps, Rs34.00). MCBG closed unchanged at Rs202.75.

Nigeria: ASI +0.71%, USD 24.9m

A much better day in Lagos as turnover increased to $24.9m on the back of renewed foreign interest. There were large crosses in the likes of Zenith ($7.78m), FBNH ($2.57m), GTB ($2.32m), Nestle ($1.71m) and ETI ($1.22m). Banks had a good day from a performance point of view as well with the Index gaining +2.06% thanks to UBA (+4.49%), GTB (+4.40%) and FBNH (+1.38%). Consumers (+0.57%) finally managed to close higher thanks to PZ Cussons (+9.91%) and Flour Mills (+4.99%).

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials +1.22%, USD 5.27m

Some aggressive buying on decent size came to play in Harare today. The bulk of the action took place in the large caps; Innscor (60c), CBZ (13c), Econet (68.9c) and Delta (113c).

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

10.96

-4.31

Nigeria

NGN

175.50

-8.66

Kenya

KES

90.10

-4.22

Mauritius

MUR

31.50

-4.60

Botswana

BWP

9.20

-4.99

Tanzania

TZS

1735.00

-8.36

Uganda

UGX

2745.00

-7.94

Rwanda

RWF

695.25

-2.77

Ghana

GHS

3.20

-25.96

BRVM

XOF

529.42

-9.33

Egypt

EGP

7.15

-2.85

Morocco

MAD

8.84

-7.54

Tunisia

TND

1.83

-10.47

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