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Movers & Shakers: February 27, 2015
Botswana: DCI -0.16%, USD 137k
FNBB accounted the lions share of activity today, after trading 324k shares to close at 380t.
Kenya: NSE 20 +0.28%, USD 9.9m
A solid day to end the week from a turnover point of view in Nairobi as value traded amounted to $9.9m as locals dominated proceedings. After releasing FY 2014 results after the close yesterday which saw PAT increase +17.48%, KNCB had a very solid day with the name gaining +1.7% on 2.58m shares as foreigners drove the name higher. Safcom continued to gain on foreign demand as the telco gained +0.3% on 9.1m shares. There was some action in the usually illiquid BAT as 128k shares traded. EABL came under pressure from foreign sellers as the brewer fell -2.8% on 675k shares.
Mauritius: Semdex -0.31%, USD 790k
The Semdex finished the week in negative territory. MCBG shed 0.4% to close the week off at Rs205.50 on the back of 44.4k shares traded. SBM remained firm at Rs1.00 after 2.2m shares were exchanged.
Nigeria: ASI +0.19%, USD 26.1m
A better day to end the week in Lagos as turnover amounted to $26.1m thanks to a cross in UACN ($6.13m) early on. There was also some action in NB ($4.42m), GTB ($3.93m) and Flour Mills ($2.80m). Banks closed higher with the sector gaining +0.46% thanks to Access (+2.73%) and GTB (+0.86%). Consumers (+0.56%) also closed in positive territory thanks to Dangote Flour (+4.13%) and NB (+3.31%).
Please note that the index figure above is correct at the time of writing.
Zimbabwe: Industrials -0.51%, USD 1.1m
Decent volumes in the likes of CBZ (Unch, 10c), Econet (-2.83%, 51.5c) and DZL (-5.56, 8.50c) steered proceedings. Each counter traded 1.3m, 1.2m and 2.5m shares respectively. Delta had a quiet end to the week as the stock only managed to trade 10k shares, closing at a price of 115c.
African Currencies
|
Country |
Notation |
Currency |
YTD % |
|
South Africa |
ZAR |
11.66 |
-0.97 |
|
Nigeria |
NGN |
203.00 |
-9.63 |
|
Kenya |
KES |
91.40 |
-0.88 |
|
Mauritius |
MUR |
33.67 |
-5.72 |
|
Botswana |
BWP |
9.66 |
-1.52 |
|
Tanzania |
TZS |
1837.50 |
-5.69 |
|
Uganda |
UGX |
2890.00 |
-4.12 |
|
Rwanda |
RWF |
705.04 |
-2.16 |
|
Ghana |
GHS |
3.52 |
-8.59 |
|
BRVM |
XOF |
584.29 |
-7.22 |
|
Egypt |
EGP |
7.63 |
-6.26 |
|
Morocco |
MAD |
9.64 |
-5.88 |
|
Tunisia |
TND |
1.94 |
-4.48 |
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