Movers & Shakers: June 17, 2016


Botswana: DCI +0.02%, USD 11k

Nothing to report.

Kenya: NSE 20 -0.15%, USD 8.1m

A decent end to another active week in Kenya. The bulk of the action went through in a couple of crosses with KNCB (-1.4%, KES35.00) leading the way. Safcom (+50bps, KES18.70) had another active day with aggressive foreign buying pushing the stock ever higher. EABL fell by 70bps to KES300 on the back of some foreign selling. The rest of the market was relatively dull.

Mauritius: Semdex -0.05%, USD 1.20m

Some nice activity took place in MCBG (unch, Rs213.00) while the rest of the market was uneventful.

Nigeria: ASI +2.66%, USD 33.9m

The rally after Wednesday’s announcement continued today with banks (+1.74%) and consumers (+2.60%) both strong. The banks saw some decent volume as foreign participants joined in the fun today. The most active names were GTB (+4.6%, N21.61), Zenith (+36bps, N16.65), UBA (+2.35%, N4.80) and FBNH (+4.52%, N4.39). The only consumer name that saw any decent volume was NB which rose by 5% to N148.86). There was also some decent crossing in Dangcem (+5%, N183.81).

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials -0.29%, USD 2.78m

Delta came to life today with some crossing going through at the 52c level. There was also smaller action in Seedco (52c) and Natfoods (210c).

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

15.17

+1.96

Nigeria

NGN

199.05

0.13

Kenya

KES

101.25

1.04

Mauritius

MUR

35.48

1.04

Botswana

BWP

11.02

-1.82

Tanzania

TZS

2192.00

-1.95

Uganda

UGX

3355.00

0.51

Rwanda

RWF

780.00

-4.598

Ghana

GHS

3.95

-4.89

BRVM

XOF

589.70

4.89

Egypt

EGP

8.87

-11.79

Morocco

MAD

9.68

2.53

Tunisia

TNF

2.15

-5.36

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