Editorial | - Part 10

African capital markets play an important role in fostering African economic growth — Sunil Benimadhu, CEO, Stock Exchange of Mauritius

Sunil Benimadhu, Chief Executive of the Stock Exchange of Mauritius (SEM) gives an exclusive interview to Capital Markets in Africa and elaborates on aspects of capital markets development in Africa. Sunil has played an instrumental role in uplifting the operational, technical and regulatory infrastructure of the SEM and contributed to its emergence as one of the leading Exchanges in Africa. He is a regular speaker on emerging markets and on African markets in international stock exchange conferences To…

African Stock Market October 2015 Performance: South African equity best performer for local and foreign investors in October, BRVM YTD leader …

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Lagos, Nigeria Capital Markets in Africa — African stock market performance measured by country equity benchmark index returns ended in negative for the month of October, with six gainers and twelve losers on the local currency basis. Still on local basis return, the October’s average return of -0.9 percent was recorded across eighteen African stock indices and October monthly returns range from -6.6 percent recorded by the Kenyan equity markets (measured by NSE All Share Index) to +7.4 percent registered by the South African…

Africa Equity Weekly | 23 Oct 2015: Egyptian Equity pulls African Equity Market to the Green Zone … South Africa, Nigeria among gainers

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Lagos, Nigeria, Capital Markets in Africa — The African equity markets ended in the green zone at the end of Friday 23 October, among the eighteen African equity indices ten ended in green and six in the red zone (Swaziland All Share index and Rwandan All Share index remained unchanged to end at 312.38 points and 133.83 points respectively) compared to the previous week ending Friday 16 October 2015. The overall average return of the eighteen…

Africa Equity Weekly | 16 Oct 2015: Egyptian equity 3.4% higher, Nigeria All Share 1.1% down, South Africa equity 0.7% lower

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Lagos, Nigeria, Capital Markets in Africa — At the end of Friday 16 October, out the eighteen African equity indices eleven ended in negative and seven in the positive zone relative to the week ending 09 October 2015. The overall weekly average return of the eighteen stock indices was -0.74 percent w-o-w. Egyptian EGX 30 Index topping the gainers’ list by adding 3.38 percent week-on-week (w-o-w) to end the week at 7,594.45 points. It followed BRVM Composite…

Africa Equity Weekly | 09 Oct 2015: South African JSE All Share 4.59% up, Egyptian EGX30 2.48% higher, Nigeria All Share 1.38% down …

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Lagos, Nigeria, Capital Markets in Africa — African equities market continued its bearish momentum in the second week of the fourth quarter, as a result of growth concerns and bearish commodity prices, which led to the 60bps and 80bps, slash in 2015 and 2016 sub-Saharan Africa annual growth forecasts by the IMF to 3.8 percent and 4.3 percent. At the end of Friday 09 October, out the eighteen African equity indices there were thirteen downs, four…

African Stock Market Sept & Q3 2015 Report: Nigeria Local Champ, Uganda Foreign Favourite, BRVM Q3 Winner

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Lagos, Nigeria Capital Markets in Africa — African stock markets performance measured by country equity benchmark index returns ended in negative for the month of September, with eight gainers and ten laggards on the local currency basis. Still on local basis return, the September average return of -0.6 percent was recorded across eighteen African equity indices and September monthly returns ranges from -7.4 percent recorded by the Namibian equity markets (measured by Namibia Overall Index) to +8.1 percent registered…

African Stock Markets Today: South Africa, Namibia, Nigeria Equities Higher … Uganda, Tunisia in Red ….

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Today’s Leaders South African JSE All Share Index surged by 1.43 percent to settle at 50,088.86 points and Namibia Overall Share Index rose by 1.34 percent to close at 960.69. Also Nigerian All Shares Index ended at 31217.77 after adding 1.27 percent, Tanzania All Share Index climbed by 0.69 percent at 2531.08 and Ghana Composite Index closed at 2,005.82 points by adding 0.42 percent. Other gainers were BRVM Composite Index (+0.35 percent at 297.73 points), Swaziland All…

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