Mauritius SEMDEX Rises 0.7% to 2,215.5; MCB Leads Advance

Mauritius SEMDEX Rises 0.7% to 2,215.5; MCB Leads Advance

PORT LOUIS (Capital Markets in Africa) – The Mauritius Stock Exchange Semdex Index rose 0.7 percent to 2,215.5. The move was the biggest since rising 1 percent on Dec. 18 and follows the previous session of less than one percent. The MSCI Emerging Markets Europe, Middle East and Africa Index advanced 0.3 percent. MCB Group Ltd. contributed the most to the advance, rising 0.7 percent. ENL Commercial Ltd. increased 3.9 percent, the biggest gain. Mauritian Eagle Insurance Co. Ltd….

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EOH Says Directors’ Margin Calls Caused Stock-Price Plunge

EOH Says Directors’ Margin Calls Caused Stock-Price Plunge

JOHANNESBURG (Capital Markets in Africa) – EOH Holdings Ltd. said forced stock sales due to margin calls involving two directors caused a 35 percent plunge in the stock on Dec. 7. The decline was “triggered by the forced sale of shares by financial institutions against equity-financed transactions to various individual shareholders including two EOH directors,” the Johannesburg-based technology services company said in a statement on Monday. Jehan Mackay, the chief executive officer of the public…

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Biggest Daily percentage slide as Oil Prices tumble 5 percent after Disappointment in Oil Cuts

Biggest Daily percentage slide as Oil Prices tumble 5 percent after Disappointment in Oil Cuts

LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Oil prices tumbled 5 percent on Thursday as the extension of output curbs by OPEC and other producing countries disappointed investors who had hoped for larger cuts, leading to the biggest daily percentage slide in crude prices since early March. At Thursday’s meeting in Vienna, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and some non-OPEC producers agreed to extend supply cuts of 1.8 million barrels per day (bpd) until…

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Morocco Equity Markets | 21 Mar 2016: Moroccan Stocks Climb to 7-Month High, Led by Lafarge

Morocco Equity Markets | 21 Mar 2016: Moroccan Stocks Climb to 7-Month High, Led by Lafarge

Casablanca, Morocco, Capital Markets in Africa —Casablanca Stock Exchange witnessed positive return at the end of Monday’s equity trading session. The Moroccan benchmark stock index (measured as MASI Index) went up 1.21 percent to end at 9,409.94 points (with a year-to-date performance to 5.43 percent) with total market capitalization at MAD 471.621 billion (a fall of MAD 4.84 billion or US$28 million relative to previous market capitalization of MAD 466.778). The market activity measured as total…

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African Stock Market January 2016: Tunisia equity triumph, rewards investors amid of global equity markets panic

African Stock Market January 2016: Tunisia equity triumph, rewards investors amid of global equity markets panic

LAGOS, Nigeria, Capital Markets in Africa — Global equity markets opened 2016 on a panic mood amid of negative outlook on China’s growth prospects and commodity slumps. As a result, African equity market performance measured by country equity benchmark index returns ended in negative for the month, with four gainers and fourteen losers on the local currency basis. Still on local basis return, the January’s average return of -3.0 percent (relatively to  -0.9 percent in…

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African Equity Markets in 2015: BRVM Bourse 2015 Champion, Botswana runner-up, Zimbabwe worst market

African Equity Markets in 2015: BRVM Bourse 2015 Champion, Botswana runner-up, Zimbabwe worst market

Lagos, Nigeria Capital Markets in Africa — African stock market performance measured by country equity benchmark index returns produced a negative returns in 2015, with four positive growths and fourteen negative returns on a local currency basis.  The performance was more disheartening on a US-dollar adjusted performance basis, with just one equity market produced a positive return. These unimpressed performances (compared to 2014) across African equities can be attributed to interlocked negative feedback loops between declining commodity…

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Morocco Equity Markets | 31 Dec 2015: Morocco equity investors lose MAD 31bn and All Share index falls 7.22% in 2015 …

Morocco Equity Markets | 31 Dec 2015: Morocco equity investors lose MAD 31bn and All Share index falls 7.22% in 2015 …

Casablanca, Morocco, Capital Markets in Africa —Casablanca Bourse ended Thursday’s trading session; the last trading session of 2015 in a positive region to cushion the overall loses in 2015. The Moroccan benchmark stock index (measured as MASI Index) advanced by 0.64 percent to close at 8,925.71 points (with a year-to-date performance to -7.22 percent) and the equity market capitalization closed 2015 at MAD 453.316 billion (by gaining of MAD 4.62 billion or US$462 million relative to…

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