Movers & Shakers: November 17, 2017


Botswana: DCI unch, USD 1.34m

A solid day in Gaborone today with action across the board. The most actively traded names were BBCB ($340), BIHL ($290), NAP ($210) and Letshego ($128).

Kenya: NSE 20 -0.35%, USD 6.05m

An average day on the bourse today with foreign participation accounting for 65% of net buying and 45.8% of sales. KCB (+0.61%, KES41.00) and Equity (+1.24%, KES40.75) accounting with a combined total of 63% of total market turnover. EABL (-1.25%, KES237.00) and Safcom (+0.99%, KES25.50) the other counters with some decent volume the rest of the market was extremely quiet

Mauritius: Semdex +0.18%, USD 1.62m

An average day to end the week in Port Louis as the Semdex and the Sem-10 closed +0.18% and +0.05% higher respectively. The banking stocks drove the market as MCBG closed +0.5% at Rs276.50 with 70K shares being foreign sales. SBMH reached an intra-day high of Rs7.62 to close unch at Rs7.60 with 1.19m shares exchanging hands.

Nigeria: ASI +0.19%, USD17.51m

Not a bad way to end the week in Lagos as the financial sector declined 0.01% and the consumers appreciated 0.62%. Top traders on the day belonged to NB (+0.47%, N138.80) with a few massive crossed at market open, Zenith (+0.33%, N24.12), Sovrenin (unch, N0.50), Guaranty (-0.23%, N43.00) and Nestle (+0.08%, N1,251.03) closing with some decent volumes going through in the names.

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials -11.32%, USD 3.2m

The market crashed for the second session in Harare today as Zimbabwe continues to await news on Mugabe's fate. Losses were recorded in Econet (-20%), Delta (-20%), OML (-20%), Afdis (-18%) , Seedco (-15%).

African Currencies

                       
  AFRICA STOCK EXCHANGE PERFORMANCE     CURRENCIES  
                       
  Country Index 17-Nov-17 YTD %     Country Notation 17-Nov-17 YTD %  
  Botswana DCI   -100.00%     Botswana BWP 10.49 1.92  
  Egypt CASE 30 13847.36 12.18%     Egypt EGP 17.66 2.66  
  Kenya NSE 20 3730.15 17.07%     Ghana GHS 4.58 -10.26  
  Malawi MASI 20321.89 52.56%     Kenya KES 103.85 -1.33  
  Mauritius SEMDEX 2221.67 22.85%     Morocco MAD 9.43 7.38  
    SEM 10 423.98 22.88%     Mauritius MUR 34.03 5.72  
  Morocco MASI 12598.69 8.20%     Nigeria NGN 359.79 -12.36  
  Nigeria NSI 36703.58 36.57%     Rwanda RWF 852.50 -3.58  
  Tanzania TSI 3834.29 4.25%     Tunisia TND 2.50 -7.44  
  Rwanda RSI 133.97 5.27%     Tanzania TZS 2,238.81 -2.58  
  Uganda USE ALSI 1728.95 17.03%     Uganda UGX 3,636.62 -1.11  
  Zambia LUSE All Share 5122.10 23.17%     BRVM XOF 571.57 10.21  
  Zimbabwe Industrial Index 432.72 197.20%     South Africa ZAR 14.04 -2.16  
    Mining Index 134.37 129.65%     Zimbabwe *OMIR 5.66 3.14  
              *Zimbabwe Old Mutial Implied Rate    

 

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