Movers & Shakers: October 26, 2016


Botswana: DCI +0.02%, USD 1.3m

Some solid action in Letshego helped boost activity today as 5m shares changed hands while there was also some small activity in FNBB as 880k shares traded.

Kenya: NSE 20 +0.02%, USD 2.9m

Activity continued to decline in Nairobi today as Safcom accounted for more than half of total value traded as 8.9m shares traded in the telco. The rest of the big names were unfortunately woefully quiet.

Mauritius: Semdex +0.03%, USD 1.1m

A better day in Port Louis thanks to crosses in MCBG (40k shares), LUX (108k shares) and SBMH (727k shares) while the rest of the market was very quiet.

Nigeria: ASI +0.08%, USD 5.5m

Much of the same in Lagos with Unilever ($2.1m) the only name to break the $1m turnover mark while the rest of the market was dreadful. Banking stocks closed the day slightly higher with the sector gaining +0.14% while consumer stocks managed to close +0.51% higher. FBNH closed the day unchanged after reporting Q3 2016 numbers.

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials +2.34%, USD 186k

Things slowed down dramatically in Harare with no names worth mentioning.

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

13.93

11.10

Nigeria

NGN

319.00

-37.52

Kenya

KES

101.40

0.89

Mauritius

MUR

35.88

-0.08

Botswana

BWP

10.64

5.50

Tanzania

TZS

2184.00

-1.59

Uganda

UGX

3457.50

-2.47

Rwanda

RWF

809.09

-7.92

Ghana

GHS

3.97

-4.22

BRVM

XOF

604.86

2.26

Egypt

EGP

8.88

-11.86

Morocco

MAD

9.90

0.30

Tunisia

TNF

2.26

-9.59

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