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Movers & Shakers: February 02, 2015
Botswana: DCI -0.06%, USD 2.67m
Letshego closed the session as the dominant player, as the counter exchanged 10.38m shares which accounted for 99% of turnover. Elsewhere the market was extremely quiet.
Kenya: NSE 20 +0.20%, USD 6.4m
It was an average start to the week from an activity point of view with turnover amounting to $6.4m as activity was evenly spread between locals and foreigners, with foreigners dominating purchases (60%). Safcom managed to gain +0.7% thanks to foreign demand on 14.7m shares. Locals dominated both sides of KNCB as the name closed unchanged. Foreign demand drove Co-op Bank +2.9% higher on 3.6m shares while local investors drove BMBC +1.3% higher.
Mauritius: Semdex -0.58%, USD 1.27m
A slow start to the week in Port Louise, as indices continue to close in the red. The banking heavyweights accounted 61% of total market turnover. MCBG shed 0.5% to close at Rs198.50 on a total of 50k shares traded, while SBM closed 1% lower at Rs1.01 with 1.1m shares traded.
Nigeria: ASI +1.08%, USD 17.3m
A very dull start to the week which was somewhat salvaged by crosses in NB ($7.17m), GTB ($1.36m), Zenith ($1.28m) and PZ Cussons ($1.23m) as total market turnover amounted to $17.3m. Banks started the week on a positive note with the sector gaining +0.50% thanks to GTB (+2.30%). Consumers (+2.28%) had a very strong day thanks to Dangote Sugar (+10.12%), Glaxo (+5.00%) and NB (+4.91%). Market heavyweight DangCem gained +1.09%.
Please note that the index figure above is correct at the time of writing.
Zimbabwe: Industrials +0.25%, USD 913k
Thin trades dominated proceedings as Delta closed unchanged at 111.10c, trading a total of 273,355 shares, with firm demand persisting in the name. Other movers included Econet and Seedco, which closed at 50c and 102c, with 579,843 and 255,700 shares traded respectively.
African Currencies
|
Country |
Notation |
Currency |
YTD % |
|
South Africa |
ZAR |
11.56 |
+0.03 |
|
Nigeria |
NGN |
188.56 |
-2.71 |
|
Kenya |
KES |
91.59 |
-1.08 |
|
Mauritius |
MUR |
32.70 |
-2.91 |
|
Botswana |
BWP |
9.62 |
-1.09 |
|
Tanzania |
TZS |
1770.00 |
-2.09 |
|
Uganda |
UGX |
2865.00 |
-3.28 |
|
Rwanda |
RWF |
701.02 |
-1.60 |
|
Ghana |
GHS |
3.36 |
-4.38 |
|
BRVM |
XOF |
582.03 |
-6.87 |
|
Egypt |
EGP |
7.63 |
-6.28 |
|
Morocco |
MAD |
9.56 |
-5.11 |
|
Tunisia |
TND |
1.93 |
-3.55 |
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