Another relatively uneventful day in Gaborone today with activity heavily focused on Letshego ($100k).
Clearly the dust has settled from all the political uncertainty of the re-elections in Kenya with foreigners assuming 68.5% of sales and 40.9% of purchases on the Nairobi bourse as most counters saw green. Safaricom was up 0.98% trading at KES25.75 accounting for a quarter of the market turnover, EABL was unchanged at KES244.00 while KCB and Equity both advancing 3.29% and 7.24% respectively.
Not a bad day at all with a the stock exchange being dominated by a number a huge crosses, seeing the banking and consumers in ended the in positive territory closing 0.18% and 0.01% respectively. Mobil (+3.87%, N161.00) about 30% of the market, Stanbic (-2.61%, N42.50), NB (unch, N150.00), GTB (+0.36%, N41.85) and Zenith (+1.49, N25.87) were the major movers on the day with some decent activity.
Please note that the index figure above is correct at the time of writing.
Today’s turnover was skewed by a handful of securities including OML ($2.5m), Econet ($2m) and Innscor ($1.64m). The industrial index closed marginally higher on the back of gains in Delta, OKZ and Simbisa.
AFRICA STOCK EXCHANGE PERFORMANCE | CURRENCIES | ||||||||||
Country | Index | 1-Nov-17 | YTD % | Country | Notation | 1-Nov-17 | YTD % | ||||
Botswana | DCI | 8917.34 | -8.08% | Botswana | BWP | 10.54 | 1.39 | ||||
Egypt | CASE 30 | 14277.29 | 15.66% | Egypt | EGP | 17.64 | 2.73 | ||||
Kenya | NSE 20 | 3759.67 | 18.00% | Ghana | GHS | 4.43 | -7.12 | ||||
Malawi | MASI | 20049.06 | 50.51% | Kenya | KES | 103.75 | -1.23 | ||||
Mauritius | SEMDEX | 2198.00 | 21.55% | Morocco | MAD | 9.52 | 6.33 | ||||
SEM 10 | 420.33 | 21.82% | Mauritius | MUR | 34.20 | 5.18 | |||||
Morocco | MASI | 12385.44 | 6.37% | Nigeria | NGN | 358.35 | -12.01 | ||||
Nigeria | NSI | 36887.20 | 37.26% | Rwanda | RWF | 852.00 | -3.52 | ||||
Tanzania | TSI | 3838.53 | 4.37% | Tunisia | TND | 2.52 | -8.03 | ||||
Rwanda | RSI | 133.90 | 5.22% | Tanzania | TZS | 2,244.50 | -2.83 | ||||
Uganda | USE ALSI | 1690.63 | 14.43% | Uganda | UGX | 3,650.83 | -1.49 | ||||
Zambia | LUSE All Share | 5127.27 | 23.30% | BRVM | XOF | 590.60 | 6.66 | ||||
Zimbabwe | Industrial Index | 523.22 | 259.35% | South Africa | ZAR | 14.13 | -2.75 | ||||
Mining Index | 138.27 | 136.32% | Zimbabwe | *OMIR | 5.59 | 309.49 | |||||
*Zimbabwe Old Mutial Implied Rate |