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Cote d’Ivoire Equity Market | 25 Aug 2015: Bear persist on the BRVM bourse, investor marginally lose US$6 million

Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire (Capital Markets in Africa):- BRVM (The Regional Stock Exchange of eight West Africa) closed its trading session this Tuesday, lower than the previous day. BRVM 10 index decreased from 297.01 to 296.73 points, a drop of 0.09 percent. BRVM Composite index lost 0.05 percent to 294.80 against 294.94 points previously. The equity market capitalization fell by XOF 4 billion (about US$6 million) to close at XOF 7,274 billion relative to previous trading…

Botswana Equity Watch | 24 Aug 2015: Botswana equity markets show signs of life, DCI up 7.00 bps, LASI up 0.03bps, FCI down….

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Gaborone, Botswana (Capital Markets in Africa):- The BSE Equity Markets showed signs of life as the DCI, LASI and DFSI recorded upward changes with the FCI going the other way in todays trading The Botswana Domestic Composite Index (DCI) was up by 7.00 points to close at 11041.59 points rising by 0.06 percent from its previous close of 11,035.41 points. Likewise, the Local Asset Sector Index (LASI) recorded a slight change after the days trading closing at 800.09 up 0.03 points from its previous close…

South Africa Equity Market | 24 Aug 2015: Johannesburg Stock Exchange ends lower …. JSE All share 2.85% down

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Johannesburg, South Africa (Capital Markets in Africa) — On Monday the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) followed the global equity markets down trend to end lower, with falls across the main sector indices except gold miners index. JSE All Share closed 2.85 percent or 1,397.17 points lower to end at 47,631.19 points and the JSE Top 40 index sagged by 1,255.32 points or 2.89 percent to end at 42,149.24 points. The JSE Financial sector index crashed by 2.49…

Egypt Equity Market | 24 Aug 2015 : Egyptian Exchange extends down trends, EGX30 touches 20 months low

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Cairo, Egypt (Capital Markets in Africa):- Egyptian Exchange extended its bearish at end of today’s trading session. The market capitalization ended at EGP 420.8 billion after sagging by EGP 7.8 billion (US$1 billion); relative to EGP 428.6 billion recorded at previous day trading session. The benchmark index EGX30 crashed by 1.92 percent or 130.03 points to end 6,654 points, extending its southward movement to reach lowest level since December 2013. The equal-weighted indexes EGX50 sagged by 4.45 percent or 53.65…

Zimbabwe Equity Market | 24 Aug 2015: Zimbabwe equities continue in red…industrial index down by 0.50%, Market Cap drops US$18 Mill..

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Harare, Zimbabwe (Capital Markets in Africa):- The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) industrial index continued in the red plunging a further 0.50% to end at 135.13 or 0.68 points down from its previous close of 135.82 points. The market capitalization ended at US$3.544 billion dropping a further US$18 million relative to previous trading session market capitalisation of US$3.562 billion. The market activity today recorded a turnover of US$0.268 million exchanged in 10 traded securities via 33 trade transactions….

Morocco Equity Martket | 24 Aug 2015: Casablanca bourse in bearish mood… investors lose MAD 4.5 billion

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Casablanca, Morocco (Capital Markets in Africa):- Casablanca bourse’s equity trading opened the week on negative trends. The Moroccan benchmark stock index (measured as MASI Index) crashed by 86.60 point or 0.91 percent to close at 9,430.08 points (with a year-to-date performance to -1.98 percent) with total market capitalization at MAD 480.673 billion (a lose of MAD 4.5 billion relative to previous market capitalization of MAD 485.159) and market activities measured as total traded value was recorded…

Nigeria Equity Watch | 24 Aug 2015 : Nigerian Blue Chip Stocks Drag Benchmark Index …NSE ASI down 2.2%

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Lagos, Nigeria (Capital Markets in Africa) — Bearish bets on DANGOTE CEMENT (-4.0%), ZENITH (-6.5%) and NIGERIAN BREWERIES (-1.7%) extended the losing course of the Nigerian stock market today. As a result, the benchmark index declined 2.2% to 29,214.13pts bringing YTD loss to 15.7%, the greatest loss in 6 months. Investors lost N227.7bn to peg market capitalization at N10.0tn at the close of market. Likewise, market activity declined as value and volume traded shed 43.9%…

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