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South Africa Market Watch | 12 Aug 2015: Johannesburg Stock Exchange ends in red, with loses across the main sectors except gold mining sector

Johannesburg, South Africa (Capital Markets in Africa) — On Wednesday the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) closed in red district, with loses across the main sector indices except gold mining sector index. Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) All Share plunged by 1,650.57 or 3.16 percent to close at 50,570.60 points and the JSE Top 40 index plummeted by 1,642.23 points or 3.52 percent to end at 44,980.35 points. On the same trend, financial sector index sagged by 3.42 percent or…

Zimbabwe Market Watch | 12 Aug 2015: Zimbabwe equities fall further by 0.45%, Econet lead the losers

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Harare, Zimbabwe (Capital Markets in Africa):-The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) industrial index in the red region today after fell by 0.45 percent or 0.65 points to end at 142.93 points. The market capitalization ended at US$3.750 billion. The market activity today recorded a turnover of US$575,976 exchanged in 16 traded securities via 33 trade transactions. Foreign investor buys US$408,041 and foreign sells US$ 414,072 today. Out of the 16 traded securities, Zimplow Holdings Limited recorded at US$220,228…

Ghana Equity Watch | 12 Aug 2015: Ghana equity markets escape the bear, investors marginally gain US$2 million..

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Accra, Ghana (Capital Markets in Africa):- Ghana equity markets returned to positive region at the end of Wednesday’s trading session. The market capitalization marginally surged by GHS 8 million to close at GHS 63,160 million relative to market capitalization of GHS 63,142 million recorded at previous trading session. The benchmark composite index gained 3.37 points or 0.16 percent to close the day at 2,171.57 points, representing a year- to- date performance 0f -3.96 percent. The financial Index rose by 2.2 points or…

Tanzania Equity Watch | 12 Aug 2015: Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange index declines by 0.66%, equity investors lose US$71 million ..

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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (Capital Markets in Africa):- The Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange index (DSEI) declined by 17.10 points or 0.66 percent to close at 2,583.26 points and the Tanzanian domestic Share Index sagged by 41.23 points or 0.90 percent to close at 4,553.12 points. Likewise, the Banks, Finance & Investment sector index plunged by 128.59 points or 4.42 percent to close at 2,780.90 points but the Industrial & Allied sector index surged by…

Kenya Equity Watch | 12 Aug 2015: Bear returns to the Nairobi Securities Exchange, NSE20 index 0.46% down …

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Nairobi, Kenya (Capital Markets in Africa) — The bear returned to the Nairobi Securities Exchange, hence the market capitalization went down by 0.20 percent or KES 4.23 billion (almost US$42 million) to end at KES 2,165 billion relative to market capitalization of KES 2,168 billion recorded at previous trading session. In the same mood, the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE20) index sagged by 20.57 points or 0.46 percent to close at 4,499.06 points and the Nairobi All…

Cote d’Ivoire Equity Watch | 12 Aug 2015: BRVM bourse ends in red, indices fall and investors lose US$85 Mil

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Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire (Capital Markets in Africa):- BRVM (The Regional Stock Exchange of eight West Africa) closed its trading session this Wednesday, lower than the previous day. BRVM 10 index decreased from 310.39 to 307.75 points, a drop of 0.85 percent. BRVM Composite index lost 0.67 percent to 300.87 against 302.90 points previously. The equity market capitalization plunged by XOF 50 billion (about US$85 million) to close at XOF 7,424 billion relative to previous trading sessions’…

Nigeria Equity Watch | 12 Aug 2015: Sell Pressure Persists…NSE ASI down 52bps

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Lagos, Nigeria (Capital Markets in Africa) — The Nigerian Equities market suffered a second consecutive day of losses as the Benchmark Index- All Share Index- declined 0.5% closing the day at 31,107.11 points. Today’s performance was on the back of price depreciations in GUARANTY (-3.0%), STANBIC (-5.0%) and GUINNESS (-3.1%). A total amount of N55.7bn was subsequently lost by investors as market capitalization settled at N10.7tn. Market activity was mixed as total volume traded improved 54.5%…

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