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Movers & Shakers: October 09, 2017


Botswana: DCI -0.07%, USD 5.43m

Not a bad day at all in Gaborone today with a few counters driving the market, Letshego (unch, $4.67m) being 85% of total market turnover, Choppies (unch, $538k) and FPC (unch, $255k) accounting for a combined 14.6% of the value traded today.

Kenya: NSE 20 +0.52%, USD 4.75m

Not a bad way to start the week on the Nairobi stock exchange with Safaricom (+1.01%, KES25.00) being almost 50% of the total market and the only name breaking the USD1m mark. Other names worth a mention were EABL (-1.21%, KES245.00), Equity (-2.70%, KES36.00) and BATK (unch, KES800.00). Foreigners accounted for 83.9% of market selling and 80.8% of the purchasing, once again dominating the bouse.

Mauritius: Semdex -0.27%, USD 50k

The Mauritius bourse saw almost all indices close the session in red with the Semdex falling 2,219.06 points as total market turnover was a poultry Rs53.9m for the day. MCBG declined -1.1% closing at Rs277.00, fighting a losing battle accounting for 52.5% of the market, SBM appreciated 0.5% trading at Rs7.80 and NMH unchanged @ Rs23.50 were the only names with some decent activity.

Nigeria: ASI +1.14%, USD 8.3m

At the close of trading today, bullish sentiments prevailed in the equities market as the NSE ASI began the trading days of the week with a gain of 1.41pbs to settle at 36,831.93. All the indices closed in the positive territory. The banking sector (+1.32%) and the consumer sector index (+0.40%). Gains posted by Guaranty (+3.24%, N42.02) and Fidelity (+2.94%, N1.40) sustained the banking index. While Intbrew (+5.00%, N39.50), Flourmill (+4.97%, N27.87), UACN(+3.93%, N15.60) sustained the consumer index. Notable trades of the day were Zenith ($1.6mn), NB ($1.1mn), and Guaranty ($984k).

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials +3.12%, USD 3.88m

A chunky and bullish trade in Delta driving the market today on the Harare bourse. Delta ($3.1m) appreciated -0.03% to 280.00c and accounted for 81% of today’s volume. Innscor (179.00c, $246k) down 0.28%, OML (1,172.31c, $104k) up 15.41% and Seedco ($125k) was also up appreciating 0.34% at 288.00c.

African Currencies

                       
  AFRICA STOCK EXCHANGE PERFORMANCE     CURRENCIES  
                       
  Country Index 9-Oct-17 YTD %     Country Notation 9-Oct-17 YTD %  
  Botswana DCI 8917.91 -8.07%     Botswana BWP 10.44 2.56  
  Egypt CASE 30 13968.53 13.16%     Egypt EGP 17.62 2.88  
  Kenya NSE 20 3712.37 16.51%     Ghana GHS 4.40 -6.64  
  Malawi MASI 19275.77 44.71%     Kenya KES 103.30 -0.80  
  Mauritius SEMDEX 2219.06 22.71%     Morocco MAD 9.46 7.01  
    SEM 10 427.82 23.99%     Mauritius MUR 34.05 5.63  
  Morocco MASI 12422.57 6.68%     Nigeria NGN 359.75 -12.35  
  Nigeria NSI 36831.93 37.05%     Rwanda RWF 843.76 -2.58  
  Tanzania TSI 3814.01 3.70%     Tunisia TND 2.50 -7.31  
  Rwanda RSI 121.89 -4.22%     Tanzania TZS 2 244.05 -2.81  
  Uganda USE ALSI 1696.65 14.84%     Uganda UGX 3 615.80 -0.53  
  Zambia LUSE All Share 5000.05 20.24%     BRVM XOF 569.41 10.63  
  Zimbabwe Industrial Index 462.84 217.88%     South Africa ZAR 13.83 -0.64  
    Mining Index 135.18 131.04%     Zimbabwe *OMIR 4.75 247.93  
              *Zimbabwe Old Mutial Implied Rate  
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