Movers & Shakers: September 07, 2017


Botswana: DCI +0.54%, USD 4.45m

An impressive day in Gaborone today with activity heavily focused on Letshego ($2m) and Engen ($2m) both accounting for 92% of turnover.

Kenya: NSE 20 +0.48%, USD 11.61m

A slight improvement on the Kenya stock exchange today as Equity (+0.64%, KES39.25), Safcom (+2.02%, KES25.25), Kenol (+3.79%, KES16.45) and Diamond (unch, KES177.00) all closed relatively firm. The market turnover was down 28.4% as foreign investors did the bulk selling with 74.7% of total market turnover

Mauritius: Semdex -0.07%, USD 1.50m

MCBG (+0.1%, Rs269.50) once again leading the way on the Mauritius bourse contributing to more than 40% of market turnover. SBMH (+0.3%, Rs7.74), Accenscia (-1.3%, Rs11.30) and Lux Island Resorts (unch, Rs57.50) the only other stocks worth mentioning.

Nigeria: ASI +1.42%, USD 11.5m

A relatively quiet trading session until just before the close with a cross of 1.865m Nestle shares at N1220 (foreign buyer and local seller) accounting for 60% of turnover. Dangcem (+4.7%) and Guinness (+10.2%) helped the Industrials (+2.88%) and Consumers (+1%) close higher on the day as all other indices were down.

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

Tanzania: Data not available at the time of writing

Zimbabwe: Industrials +2.91%, USD 1.31m

The index clipped higher again today with local investors continuing to dominate the turnover charts. The main action today took place in Simbisa ($696m), Econet ($192k) and Delta ($111k).

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

12,88

6,76

Nigeria

NGN

359,29

-12,24

Kenya

KES

103,30

-0,80

Mauritius

MUR

33,00

13,29

Botswana

BWP

10,05

6,20

Tanzania

TZS

2239,95

-2,63

Uganda

UGX

3600,00

-0,03

Rwanda

RWF

835,12

-1,57

Ghana

GHS

4,41

-6,80

BRVM

XOF

551,33

14,26

Egypt

EGP

17,64

2,76

Morocco

MAD

9,36

8,28

Tunisia

TND

2,44

-5,03

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