Movers & Shakers: October 03, 2017


Botswana: DCI unch, USD 203k

A pretty dull day in Gaborone as just some trading in Choppies ($131k) took place. The other usual suspect Letshego trading no shares at all.

Kenya: NSE 20 unch, USD 4.81m

The market traded slightly higher today with Safcom (+2.04%, KES25.00) 46% of total market, KCB (-0.61%, KES40.75), EABL (+0.40%, KES251.00) and Kenya Re (+1.52%, KES20.00) closed mostly firm. The rest of the market was quiet as foreign investors were doing the bulk selling with 61.6% of total market sales and 91.5% of market purchasing.

Mauritius: Semdex +0.07%, USD 3.03m

An improvement on the Mauritius stock exchange today as MCBG (unch, Rs285) accounted for 68.5% of turnover with a significant cross of 227k shares. The other banking stock, SBMH dropped further -0.5% to close at Rs7.76

Nigeria: ASI -0.38%, USD 16.11m

An average start to the week in Lagos after the long weekend with the banking sector gaining +0.63% thanks to UBN (+3.99%, N5.99), Zenith (+2.61%, N24.01), FBNH (+2.30%, N5.77) and UBA (+1.74%, N8.79). Consumers closed down losses recorded in PZ (-4.98%, N24.23), Cadbury (-4.82%, N10.46), NB (-1.82%, N162.00) and Nestle (-0.42%, N1,215.00). Notable trades of the day were GTB ($3.72m), Zenith ($1.7m), Dangcem ($1.4m), NB ($1.1m) and Stanbic ($1.1m).

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials +1.57%, USD 2.20m

The Harare bourse lost ground slightly today with activity spread across a few counters as Innscor (179.97c, $1.1m) lead the way accounting for 50% of total market turnover. Other tickers driving the market were Delta (275.42c, $478k) 22% of market and Powerspeed (7.50c, $298k).

African Currencies

 

AFRICA STOCK EXCHANGE PERFORMANCE

   

CURRENCIES

                     
 

Country

Index

3-Oct-17

YTD %

   

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

 

Botswana

DCI

8930.36

-7.94%

   

Botswana

BWP

10.37

3.10

 

Egypt

CASE 30

13930.70

12.85%

   

Egypt

EGP

17.64

2.73

 

Kenya

NSE 20

3732.19

17.14%

   

Ghana

GHS

4.41

-6.80

 

Malawi

MASI

19925.66

49.59%

   

Kenya

KES

103.30

-0.80

 

Mauritius

SEMDEX

2223.13

22.94%

   

Morocco

MAD

9.45

7.12

   

SEM 10

430.43

24.75%

   

Mauritius

MUR

34.10

5.48

 

Morocco

MASI

12262.82

5.31%

   

Nigeria

NGN

359.40

-12.26

 

Nigeria

NSI

35306.09

31.37%

   

Rwanda

RWF

849.50

-3.24

 

Tanzania

TSI

3742.45

1.76%

   

Tunisia

TND

2.49

-7.01

 

Rwanda

RSI

122.90

-3.43%

   

Tanzania

TZS

2 239.41

-2.61

 

Uganda

USE ALSI

1716.20

16.16%

   

Uganda

UGX

3 601.95

-0.15

 

Zambia

LUSE All Share

4974.02

19.61%

   

BRVM

XOF

569.92

10.52

 

Zimbabwe

Industrial Index

427.53

193.63%

   

South Africa

ZAR

13.66

0.46

   

Mining Index

139.56

138.52%

   

Zimbabwe

*OMIR

3.97

177.57

             

*Zimbabwe Old Mutial Implied Rate

 
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