Movers & Shakers: July 27, 2015


Botswana: DCI unch, USD 725k

Not a bad start to the week (relatively speaking) as turnover amounted to $725k thanks to some action in Choppies (1.21m shares).

Kenya: NSE 20 -0.73%, USD 4.6m

A slow start to the week as foreigners (64%) continue to dominate proceedings and remain net buyers with total turnover amounting to $4.6m. EQBNK (-1.2%) continued to come under pressure as 2.75m shares traded in the counter while KNCB (-0.9%) also ended lower ahead of H1 2015 results due out this Thursday. Safcom managed to close +0.1% higher on foreign demand as 6.62m shares traded in the telco while EABL (+2.4%) was very quiet as only 31k shares traded as the brewer is set to release FY 2015 results this Friday.

Mauritius: Semdex +0.23%, USD 890k

A dull start to the week in Africa with many foreign participants on the Northern hemisphere summer holidays. The only real activity took place in MCBG (+50bps, Rs219.00).

Nigeria: ASI -0.91%, USD 11.4m

An extremely quiet day to start the week with no big crosses on the day as turnover amounted to $11.4m with GTB ($2.86m) and Zenith ($2.30m) the only names worth mentioning. Banks came under pressure with the sector falling -1.70% with weakness in Zenith (-2.97%), Access (-2.70%) and GTB (-1.65%). Consumers (-1.53%) were also weak as 7UP (-4.59%), NB (-3.30%) and IntBrew (-1.99%) dragged the sector lower.

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials -0.08%, USD 925k

The Harare bourse remains subdued. Today the only real action took place in Delta (100c).

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

12.63

-8.46

Nigeria

NGN

198.95

-7.79

Kenya

KES

101.75

-10.96

Mauritius

MUR

35.50

-10.56

Botswana

BWP

10.09

-5.33

Tanzania

TZS

2083.00

-16.80

Uganda

UGX

3375.00

-17.90

Rwanda

RWF

740.81

-6.88

Ghana

GHS

3.55

-9.36

BRVM

XOF

593.16

-8.63

Egypt

EGP

7.83

-8.67

Morocco

MAD

9.76

-7.03

Tunisia

TND

1.95

-4.64

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