Movers & Shakers: September 08, 2017


Botswana: DCI +0.10%, USD 2.58m

Not a bad day to end the week in Gaborone with the likes of NAP ($1.16m) being 45% of total market turnover, other names that had a descent day on the exchange were Chobe ($316k) and Choppies ($711k).

Kenya: NSE 20 +0.91%, USD 4.48m

Things slowed down in Nairobi with some activity in Equity (unch, KES39.25), Co-op (+0.61%, KES16.45), KCB (unch, KES42.25), EABL (unch, KES249) and Safcom (+1.98%, KES25.75. Foreign participation was at 50.5%.

Mauritius: Semdex +0.02%, USD 1.01m

The market closed the week on a positive note with all indices up in Port Louis. Half of today’s turnover was driven by the usual banking duo MCB ($452k) and SBM ($110k), both closed unmoved. Hotel stocks were on the rise, NMH (+0.9%), LUX (+0.9%) and SUN (+0.8%).

Nigeria: ASI -0.44%, USD 8.13m

Things slowed down on the Nigeria bourse to end the week with financials (-1.08%) closing in the negative and consumers (+2.01%) closing on the up. Guaranty (unch, N38.54) accounting for more than a quarter of today's market turnover, while there was some descent activity in Wapco (-1.36%, N52.77) and Zenith (-2.82%, N23.08).

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 +5.94%, USD 2.38m

The index continues to grind higher as a complete lack of supply permeates throughout most of the market. Simbisa rose sharply to 64.85c after a local broker pushed the price up from 60.00c accounting for 71% of market turnover, while there was also some decent activity in Delta (173.92c), Econet (66.00c) and Barclays (6.00c).

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

12.87

6.68

Nigeria

NGN

357.79

-11.87

Kenya

KES

103.07

-0.58

Mauritius

MUR

33.00

9.02

Botswana

BWP

10.03

6.52

Tanzania

TZS

2239.95

-2.63

Uganda

UGX

3601.64

-0.14

Rwanda

RWF

835.53

-1.62

Ghana

GHS

4.41

-6.80

BRVM

XOF

550.75

14.38

Egypt

EGP

17.67

2.58

Morocco

MAD

9.31

8.89

Tunisia

TND

2.43

-4.63

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