Movers & Shakers: October 20, 2014


Botswana: DCI +0.05%, USD 944k

Crosses in the likes of FNBB (892k shares), Sechaba (108k shares), and NAP (524k shares) drove activity as turnover amounted to USD 944k.

Kenya: Closed for the day.

Mauritius: Semdex +0.19%, USD 901k

Rather dull day in Port Louis. MCBG closed the day unchanged at Rs211.00 while SBM rose by 97bps to Rs1.04.

Nigeria : ASI +1.22%, USD 24.8m

An average day to start the week with turnover amounting to $24.8m with some activity in the likes of GTB ($8.16m), Zenith ($2.62m), NB ($2.37m) and FBNH ($1.31m). Banks finally managed to bounce after a torrid week last week with the Index gaining +2.89% thanks to UBA (+9.07%), FBNH (+6.61%), Access (+4.94%) and Zenith (+2.80%). Consumers (-0.17%) closed lower with PZ Cussons (-4.98%) and Unilever (-2.94%) dragging the sector lower.

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials -0.31%, USD 387k

Another frustrating day in Harare as a general lack of interest permeates throughout the market. There was general softness across the market.

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

11.03

-4.89

Nigeria

NGN

165.25

-3.00

Kenya

KES

88.95

-2.98

Mauritius

MUR

31.33

-4.09

Botswana

BWP

9.13

-4.16

Tanzania

TZS

1695.00

-6.19

Uganda

UGX

2680.00

-5.71

Rwanda

RWF

690.50

-2.10

Ghana

GHS

3.26

-27.26

BRVM

XOF

516.51

-7.04

Egypt

EGP

7.14

-2.79

Morocco

MAD

8.68

-5.72

Tunisia

TND

1.79

-8.33

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