Movers & Shakers: December 16, 2015

Botswana: DCI +0.10%, USD 3.27m

There was some chunky crossing in Sefalana (presumed local) with the stock closing at 1380t. Outside of this the market was quiet.

Kenya: NSE 20 +0.60%, USD 18.5m

An extremely active day in Nairobi thanks to a number of chunky crosses. The 2 major crosses were both local buying and selling – Housing Finance and Equity Bank. Equity Bank closed up 5% at KES42.00 thanks to the early large cross at KES43.00. In normal trading there was some good foreign crossing in EABL at KES275 (-40bps) while Safcom (+1.8%, KES16.70) also saw some action. The only other stock that had any decent volume was BRIT which closed down 1.4% at KES14.00.

Mauritius: Semdex -0.10%, USD 2.33m

An active day in the Indian Ocean island. This was mainly due to chunky crossing in SBMH (-1.4%, Rs0.70) and NMH (unch, Rs17.40).

Nigeria: ASI -0.01%, USD 10.0m

A dull day in Lagos with not much conviction either way. Right on the open there was a local cross in Dangcem at N160 although the name did close at N156.10 (-1.79%) on small volumes after the cross. This was the main drag on the index as both banks (+33bps) and Consumers (+1.73%) gained ground for the day. Activity was focused in Dangcem, GTB (+2.57%, N19.58), NB (+3.35%, N121.02) and Nestle (unch, N800.00).

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

Zimbabwe: Industrials 0.64%, USD 112k

Another pathetic day in Harare as sentiment remains poor.

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

15.05

-23.10

Nigeria

NGN

196.97

-6.86

Kenya

KES

102.40

-11.52

Mauritius

MUR

36.05

-11.93

Botswana

BWP

11.06

-13.99

Tanzania

TZS

2,160.00

-19.77

Uganda

UGX

3,407.00

-18.68

Rwanda

RWF

768.50

-10.24

Ghana

GHS

3.84

-16.21

BRVM

XOF

608.63

-10.93

Egypt

EGP

7.83

-8.58

Morocco

MAD

9.86

-7.97

Tunisia

TND

2.02

-7.86
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