Movers & Shakers: September 14, 2017


Botswana: DCI unch, USD $796k

Letshego (unch, $790k) trading 99% of the market turnover today the only name worth noting.

Kenya: NSE 20 -0.22%, USD 4.17m

Safcom unchanged on high volumes to close the day with 43% of total market turnover showing some weakness towards the end of the session. Other counters to mention are KCB (unch, KES42.00) and NIC (+0.63%, KES40.00). Once again foreigners leading the way with 62% of the market sales and 24% on the buy side.

Mauritius: Semdex +0.39%, USD 2.36m

MCBG (+0.5%, Rs275.00) once again leading the way on the Mauritius stock exchange contributing to more than 70% of total market volume. SBMH (unch, Rs7.76), NMH (+0.4%, Rs22.75), Mauritius Oil Refinery (+0.5%, Rs29.15) and Alteo (-0.5%, Rs32.55) accounted for stocks that had some decent activity that was well spread across the bourse.

Nigeria: ASI +0.55%, USD 7.53m

Things slowed down a little bit on the Nigeria bourse today with financials (-0.63%) closing in the negative and consumers (+0.18%) closing on the up. Guaranty (-0.16, N37.82) accounting for more than a quarter of today’s market turnover, while there was some descent activity in Nestle (+1.26%, N1,205.00) and Zenith (-2.42%, N22.20).

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 +9.22%, USD 5.18m

Another massive day in Harare as the industrial index continues to rally. There was activity across the board as volumes were dominated by Delta ($2m) and Barclays ($1m). Whilst Simbisa ($536), Meikles ($329), Padenga ($295), Axia ($243), First Mutual ($216) weighed in with decent trade values.

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

13.18

4.30

Nigeria

NGN

354.00

-12.90

Kenya

KES

102.85

-0.37

Mauritius

MUR

33.32

7.95

Botswana

BWP

10.16

5.13

Tanzania

TZS

2238.92

-2.59

Uganda

UGX

3598.00

-0.04

Rwanda

RWF

845.25

-2.75

Ghana

GHS

4.42

-6.80

BRVM

XOF

549.90

14.55

Egypt

EGP

17.65

2.71

Morocco

MAD

9.37

8.05

Tunisia

TND

2.47

-5.96

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