Movers & Shakers: October 12, 2017


Botswana: DCI +0.17%, USD 430k

Another very dull day in Gaborone as only four counters traded today with FNBB (+0.03%) accounting for 99% of turnover.

Kenya: NSE 20 -0.13%, USD 2.52m

A very quiet day in Kenya today as foreigners accounted for 69.8% of the selling and most of the counters closing in the red. Safaricom closed lower on the back of active foreign trading, down -1.0% to close at KES 24.75. KCB (-0.66%, KES 37.50) and Equity (-0.7%, KES 35.50) continue to tumble due to low foreign activity which has majorly been net outflows.

Mauritius: Semdex +0.17%, USD 3.39m

The indices closed the day mixed with the Semdex up +0.17% and the Sem-10 down -0.04%. Turnover was mainly geared towards the banking duo MCBG and SBM which accounted for 72.2%. MCBG closed unch at Rs278.00 with 298k shares exchanging hands of which 236k shares were foreign purchases and 168.2k shares were foreign sales. SBMH closed -0.5% at Rs7.76 with a across of 100k shares.

Nigeria: ASI +0.22%, USD 8.91m

A slight improvement today in Lagos as the NSE ASI gained 22pbs to settle at 36,732.24 points. The consumer index and the industrial index closed in positive territory gaining (+0.61%) and (+0.01%) respectively .While the banking sector index shed (-0.32%) to close south. The most active stocks were Nestle ($3.7m), Zenith ($1.6m) and Diamond ($845k).

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials +1.5%, USD 30.4m

The ZSE market capitalisation on today reached USD 14bn with market turnover of USD 30,4m, the highest daily turnover since 2014.. There were large crosses in Barclays (a prearranged trade of 322,998,026 shares at 2.64cents), Econet ($9.3m), Delta ($6.6m), OML ($2.9m), Axia ($1.1m) and Innscor ($1.1m). Top gainers were FML (+16.7%, Barclays (14.6%), Nampark (11.5%), PPC (8.8%) and Econet (6.2%). Foreigners were net sellers disposing shares worth $14.58m compared to purchases of $9.38m.

African Currencies

                       
  AFRICA STOCK EXCHANGE PERFORMANCE     CURRENCIES  
                       
  Country Index 12-Oct-17 YTD %     Country Notation 12-Oct-17 YTD %  
  Botswana DCI 8912.53 -8.12%     Botswana BWP 10.28 3.74  
  Egypt CASE 30 13891.70 12.54%     Egypt EGP 17.65 2.70  
  Kenya NSE 20 3640.14 14.25%     Ghana GHS 4.40 -6.67  
  Malawi MASI 19197.01 44.12%     Kenya KES 103.30 -0.80  
  Mauritius SEMDEX 2220.97 22.82%     Morocco MAD 9.41 7.64  
    SEM 10 425.63 23.36%     Mauritius MUR 33.99 5.82  
  Morocco MASI 12427.99 6.73%     Nigeria NGN 355.99 -11.42  
  Nigeria NSI 36732.24 36.68%     Rwanda RWF 841.00 -2.26  
  Tanzania TSI 3825.34 4.01%     Tunisia TND 2.48 -6.74  
  Rwanda RSI 125.44 -1.43%     Tanzania TZS 2 241.67 -2.71  
  Uganda USE ALSI 1671.48 13.14%     Uganda UGX 3 626.72 -0.84  
  Zambia LUSE All Share 4987.94 19.95%     BRVM XOF 567.96 10.91  
  Zimbabwe Industrial Index 490.36 236.79%     South Africa ZAR 13.48 1.97  
    Mining Index 141.39 141.65%     Zimbabwe *OMIR 5.52 304.74  
              *Zimbabwe Old Mutial Implied Rate  
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