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Movers & Shakers: September 18, 2017
Botswana: DCI -1.4%, USD 542k
Another relatively uneventful day in Gaborone as almost all the action took place in Letshego which closed lower at 197t.
Kenya: NSE 20 -0.09%, USD 1.96m
The market remains bearish with foreigners accounting for 50% of total sales. Safaricom (-3.96%, KES24.25), KCB (-0.60%, KES41.75) and CO-OP (unch, KES16.60) accounting for 74% of total market turnover seeing the bourse decline by 84.8% from the previous trading day. The rest of the counters were extremely quiet.
Mauritius: Semdex -0.03%, USD 1.76m
Total market turnover in Port Louis amounted to Rs58.9m skewed by a handful of tickers as SBM (unch,Rs7.76) and LUX (unch, Rs58.25) accounting for more than 58% of the market. We saw some decent volume in MCB (+0.6%, Rs275.00), IBL (unch, Rs45.00) and Terra (-1.3%, Rs30.00).
Nigeria: ASI -0.38%, USD 4.27m
At the close of trading today, bearish sentiments prevailed in the Nigerian equities market as the NSE ASI began the week with a 38pbs loss to settle at 34.87m points. The banking Index closed in positive territory (+0.88%), while the consumer sector and the industrial sector shed (-1.17%) and (-0.77%) respectively. The gains posted by GTB (+2.70%, N38.00), Skye Bank (+1.92%, N0.53), ETI (+1.12%, N18.00) and Sterling Bank (+0.98%, N1.03) sustained the sector. The losses recorded in NB (-2.86%, N170.00), Dangflour (-1.55%, N6.35) and Champion (-1.21%, N2.44) depressed the consumer index. Notable trades on the day were the transactions executed in ACCESS ($984k, N9.73), Zenith ($497k, N22.01) and WAPCO ($308k, N49.00).
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 -2.52%, USD 6.12m
The ZSE finally showed some signs of softening after the strong recent rally while volumes remain decent. Today we saw action dominated by Padenga ($2.05m), Simbisa ($1.52m), Delta ($728k) and OK Zim ($639k).
African Currencies
|
Country |
Notation |
Currency |
YTD % |
|
South Africa |
ZAR |
13.27 |
3.57 |
|
Nigeria |
NGN |
354.99 |
-11.17 |
|
Kenya |
KES |
103.14 |
-0.65 |
|
Mauritius |
MUR |
33.41 |
7.68 |
|
Botswana |
BWP |
10.17 |
5.13 |
|
Tanzania |
TZS |
2231.55 |
-2.27 |
|
Uganda |
UGX |
3596.77 |
-0.01 |
|
Rwanda |
RWF |
836.58 |
-1.74 |
|
Ghana |
GHS |
4.43 |
-7.30 |
|
BRVM |
XOF |
559.90 |
12.51 |
|
Egypt |
EGP |
17.63 |
2.81 |
|
Morocco |
MAD |
9.34 |
8.45 |
|
Tunisia |
TND |
2.44 |
-5.10 |
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