Movers & Shakers: October 26, 2017


Botswana: DCI unch, USD 385k

Not a bad day in Botswana with a few counters contributing towards today’s turnover. Sefalana ($181k) accounting for 47% of the market, Letshego ($151k) being 40%, FNBB ($23k) and BTCL ($18k) the only other tickers with decent activity on the bourse.

Kenya: Closed for presidential election re-run happening today

Mauritius: Semdex -0.19%, USD 31.93m

A massive day in Mauritius today with MCBG acquiring 84.4% stake in Club Med through its wholly owned subsidiary MCB Real Asset Ltd. SBM (-0.08%, Rs7.50) continued its downward trend of which almost 50% was foreign sales while MCBG (unch, Rs275.00) was extremely quiet and IBL(unch, Rs45.00). The rest of the market was extremely quiet.

Nigeria: ASI -0.29%, USD 11.7m

At the close of trading today, bearish sentiments prevailed once again on the Nigerian market, as the NSE ASI shed 29pbs to settle at 36,517.48 points. The Industrial Sector Index closed marginally in positive territory (+1.02%) while the Banking Sector Index and the Consumer Sector Index shed (-0.24%) and (-1.04%) respectively. GTB (-0.71%, N41.70), UBA (-0.64%, N9.34) and NB (-3.73%, N155.00) were the major movers being driven by gigantic crosses.

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials +0.36%, USD 9.26m

The industrial index continued it downward momentum, closing 36bps lower on the back to losses in Delta (0.3%) FMHL (3%), Innscor (3%) and Simbisa (4%). Turnover increase to USD9,26m driven by Econet ($3.9m) Delta ($3.2m),and OM ($1.6m).

African Currencies

                       
  AFRICA STOCK EXCHANGE PERFORMANCE     CURRENCIES  
                       
  Country Index 26-Oct-17 YTD %     Country Notation 26-Oct-17 YTD %  
  Botswana DCI 8920.36 -8.04%     Botswana BWP 10.55 1.28  
  Egypt CASE 30 13955.47 13.05%     Egypt EGP 17.64 2.76  
  Kenya NSE 20 3602.56 13.07%     Ghana GHS 4.38 -6.24  
  Malawi MASI 20032.20 50.39%     Kenya KES 103.85 -1.38  
  Mauritius SEMDEX 2198.37 21.57%     Morocco MAD 9.48 6.80  
    SEM 10 421.35 22.12%     Mauritius MUR 33.86 6.23  
  Morocco MASI 12353.21 6.09%     Nigeria NGN 359.83 -12.37  
  Nigeria NSI 36517.48 35.88%     Rwanda RWF 853.81 -3.73  
  Tanzania TSI 3876.84 5.41%     Tunisia TND 2.51 -7.54  
  Rwanda RSI 127.61 0.28%     Tanzania TZS 2,235.02 -2.42  
  Uganda USE ALSI 1690.74 14.44%     Uganda UGX 3,651.83 -1.51  
  Zambia LUSE All Share 5119.90 23.12%     BRVM XOF 586.36 7.45  
  Zimbabwe Industrial Index 513.87 252.93%     South Africa ZAR 14.20 -3.27  
    Mining Index 131.49 124.73%     Zimbabwe *OMIR 5.76 321.91  
              *Zimbabwe Old Mutial Implied Rate        
                       

 

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