Movers & Shakers: March 15, 2017

Botswana: DCI +0.23% USD 3.7m

Almost the only stock to trade today was FNBB (280t) which witnessed a rather chunky cross.

Kenya: NSE 20 -0.10%, USD 4.2m

Activity slowed down in Nairobi today after yesterday's excitement as Safcom ($1.2m) continued to drive proceednigs with the telco closing -2.2% lower. There was some decent activity in BATK ($719k) for a change thanks to locals on both side of the name. EQBNK released FY 2016 results which saw PAT fall -4.2% to KES 16.6bn, which surprised the market on the downside with the name closing -4.3% lower.

Mauritius: Semdex -0.23%, USD 890k

Back to normal with MCBG (-60bps, Rs225.00) dominating proceedings while we also saw some reasonable activity in SBMH (unch, Rs7.02).

Nigeria: ASI +0.07%, USD 6.8m

A much better day in Lagos thanks to a cross in Nestle ($4.1m) while the rest of the market remained very dull. Banking stocks closed the day +0.11% higher on low volume while consumer stocks gained +0.13% thanks to Unilever (+4.95%)

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials +0.20%, USD 1.3m

Some decent action in Harare today thanks to the likes of Econet (14.01c) and Delta (84.55c).

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

13.04

5.33

Nigeria

NGN

316.12

-0.25

Kenya

KES

102.90

-0.38

Mauritius

MUR

35.45

1.47

Botswana

BWP

10.42

2.56

Tanzania

TZS

2234.50

-2.39

Uganda

UGX

3592.38

0.11

Rwanda

RWF

825.00

-0.36

Ghana

GHS

4.55

-6.82

BRVM

XOF

618.70

1.96

Egypt

EGP

18.30

-0.87

Morocco

MAD

10.08

0.51

Tunisia

TNF

2.30

0.49
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