Movers & Shakers: October 03, 2014


Botswana: DCI +0.15%, USD 916k

Another relatively solid day thanks once again to Letshego (3m shares) as total value traded amounted to USD 916k.

Egypt: Closed for the day.

Kenya: NSE 20 +0.81%, USD 5.5m

A rather slow day to end the week in Nairobi as turnover anoumted to $5.5m with foreigners (58.7%) dominating activity for a change. There was some local demand in EQBNK as the counter managed to gain +2% on 1.11m shares. Safcom (-0.9%) came under pressure as both locals and foreigners were sellers in the telco. Foreigners dominated proceedings in EABL as 193k shares changed hands in the brewer.

Mauritius: Semdex +0.02%, USD 3.01m

An active end to the week in Port Louis with chunky action in MCBG (+23bps, Rs213.50). Elsewhere in the Sem-10 there were movements in Alteo (-27bps, Rs37.40), Gamma Civic (-1.12%, Rs48.50), Ciel (+56bps, Rs7.20), Terra (+28bps, Rs36.40) and BBCL (+59bps, Rs6.80).

Nigeria: ASI -0.08%, USD 31m

A large cross of 10m shares in DangCem got the market off to a flyer early on as turnover amounted to $31m. There was also some crosses in the likes of Zenith ($3.86m), GTB ($2.23m) and Oando ($1.19m). Banks closed the day lower with the Index falling -0.17% as GTB (-1.28%), Access (-0.88%) and Zenith (-0.78%) dragged the sector lower. Consumers (-0.53%) also closed the day lower thanks to Guinness (-4.18%) and PZ Cussons (-3.31%).

PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE IS A HOLIDAY IN NIGERIA ON MONDAY AND TUESDAY AND THE MARKET WILL THEREFORE BE CLOSED.

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials -0.36%, USD 1.56m

It was an active day to end the week in Harare as turnover amounted to a very pleasing USD 1.56m thanks to Econet ($820k) and Delta ($236k). The market closed the day lower with the Industrial Index falling -0.36%.

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

11.35

-7.54

Nigeria

NGN

164.23

-2.39

Kenya

KES

89.30

-3.36

Mauritius

MUR

31.57

-4.83

Botswana

BWP

9.30

-5.95

Tanzania

TZS

1679.00

-5.30

Uganda

UGX

2648.00

-4.57

Rwanda

RWF

690.50

-2.10

Ghana

GHS

3.24

-26.88

BRVM

XOF

527.22

-8.96

Egypt

EGP

7.14

-2.80

Morocco

MAD

8.82

-7.32

Tunisia

TND

1.81

-9.42

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