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Mauritius Equity Markets | 03 Nov 2015 : Positive Equity Trading Persists …. SEMDEX Index up 15bps, SEM10 Index 39bps higher

PORT LOUIS, Mauritius, Capital Markets in Africa — The Stock Exchange of Mauritius was closed yesterday for celebration of the Anniversary of the Arrival of Indentured Labourer. The equity trading started the week and the November in bullish sentiment at the end of Tuesday’s trading session. The equity market capitalization ended at MUR 209.847 billion after adding MUR 327 million (about US$9 million) compared to the previous market capitalization of MUR 209.520 billion. In the same…

African Sovereign Eurobond October 2015 Review: Yield narrowing, Ghana and Namibia issue US$1b and US$750m resp. in Oct …

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Lagos, Nigeria, Capital Markets in Africa — The economic pressure on limited resources continued to have significant impact on African countries, as a result of downtrend in the commodity prices. So, most African countries are cash squeeze, forcing governments to reduce spending as debt rises and instigating central banks to implement aggressive monetary policy tightening to control inflation. The inability of government to meet its obligation has resulted to Students’ unrest in South Africa against increase in tuition fee…

South Africa Equity Markets | 02 Nov 2015: South Africa equity edges up as financial shares rise, resources and gold miners down

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Johannesburg, South Africa Capital Markets in Africa —On Monday, the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) All Share (the broadest measure of the equity market performance) advanced by 0.12 percent or 66.52 points to settle at 53,860.26 points and the benchmark JSE Top 40 index ended 32.07 points or 0.07 percent higher to end at 48,349.52 points. The financial sector index added 0.70 percent or 317.90 points at 45,781.25 points. Industrial sector index and industrial 25 index grew by 0.10 percent to end…

Nigerian Equity Markets | 02 Nov 2015: Negative Trading Persists…. ASI down 18bps

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Lagos, Nigeria, Capital Markets in Africa — The Nigerian equity market benchmark index went further below the 30,000pts psychological mark after dipping 18bps today to close at 29,136.85pts. This decline was driven by the sell-offs recorded in DANGOTE CEMENT (-1.0%), UNILEVER (-5.0%) and FBN Holdings (-1.2%). In a similar manner, market capitalization fell N105.3bn to settle at N10.0tn. Activity level measured by volume and value traded however showed mixed performances as volume advanced 49.9% to 308.1m…

Kenya Equity Markets | 02 Nov 2015: Nairobi Equity trading opens in red, investors lose US$47 million …

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Nairobi, Kenya Capital Markets in Africa — The Nairobi Securities Exchange began the week and November on a negative and bearish sentiment. The equity market capitalization closed at KES 1,926 billion by dropping KES 4.83 billion (c.US$47 million) or 0.25 percent from the market capitalization of KES 1,932 billion recorded at the previous trading session. The Nairobi All Share Index fell by 0.25 percent or 0.35 points to end at 136.93 points and the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE20)…

Cote D’Ivoire Stock Markets | 02 Nov 2015: BRVM Bourse opens Nov in green mood, market cap US$45 million higher and indices up …

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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 Monday higher than the previous day. BRVM 10 index rose from 301.47 to 302.36 points, a gain of 0.30 percent. BRVM Composite index gained 0.35 percent at 304.37 points against 303.31 points previously. The equity market capitalization added XOF 26 billion (about US$45 million) to close at XOF 7,511 billion relative to the previous trading…

Morocco Equity Markets | 02 Nov 2015: Casablanca equity trading marginally ends in green, shareholder value US$1 Mill up …

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Casablanca, Morocco, Capital Markets in Africa —The Casablanca Stock Exchange started the week and November on a bullish sentiment. The Moroccan benchmark stock index (measured as MASI Index) advanced by 0.03 percent to end at 9,084.32 points (with a year-to-date performance to -5.57 percent) with total market capitalization at MAD 457.647 billion (a decrease of MAD 1 million or US$103,413 relatively to the previous market capitalization of MAD 457.646 billion). The market activity measured as total…

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