Market Watch | - Part 174

Morocco Market Watch | June 5th 2015: Moroccan equity market ends the week on bullish mood, adds MAD 180 million today

Casablanca, Morocco (Capital Markets in Africa):- Morocco equity market ended the week on bullish mood. Morocco’s benchmark stock index (MASI Index) added 0.03 percent to close at 9,736.55 points (increased year-to-date performance to 1.21 percent) with total market capitalization at MAD 494.616 (gained MAD 180 billion compared to previous trading sessions market capitalization of MAD 494.598 billion) and market activities measured as total traded value was recorded at MAD 49.739 million (a reduction of 29 percent…

African Stock Market Performance at the end of May, 2015

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Lagos, Nigeria (Capital Markets in Africa):- African stock market performance across the region has remained fairly flat (with merely -0.8% average return) for local investors in the month of May 2015. Figures for the Market Performance Month of May saw the Exchanges record high’s of 4.9% and 4.0% in Botswana and Ghana respectively. Several Markets went the other way recording losses ranging from 0.2% to 6.7% lead by the markets of South Africa (depreciated by 4.0%), Kenya (depreciated by 6.4%) and Namibia (down by…

Zimbabwe Market Watch | June 5th 2015: Zimbabwe stock equity ends the week on positive note but negative today.

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Harare, Zimbabwe (Capital Markets in Africa):-The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) industrial index ended the week lower at 153.49 point losing 0.15 points or 0.10 percent. Despite today’s loss the industrial index end on positive territory, by adding 0.53 points or 0.35 percent compared to week ending 29 May 2015. Likewise, the market capitalization ended the week at US$ 3.994 billion, by adding US$16 million compared to US$3.978 billion recorded the week closing 29 May 2015. The…

Mauritius Market Watch | June 4th 2015: Mauritius equity market sustains positive trend, SEMDEX 0.40% and SEM10 0.54%

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Port Louis, Mauritius (Capital Markets in Africa):- Mauritius equity market indices ended the session in positive territory today. The Semdex gained 0.40 percent to 1967.64 points and the SEM-10 rose by 0.54 percent to 373.45 points. The market capitalization was recorded at BWP 218.757 billion. With regard to market activity, total market turnover amounted to MUR 106.5 million mainly geared towards SBM Holdings which accounted for 80.8 percent of total market turnover. SBM Holdings traded at a low…

Botswana Market Watch | June 4th 2015: Botswana equity market index ends in positive, adds 0.05 percent

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Gaborone, Botswana (Capital Markets in Africa):- The Botswana domestic composite index ended on positive trend, adding 0.05 percent to extend its year-to-date growth by 11.31 percent. However, the foreign composite index remained flat to close at 1,569 points and year-to-date return is still in the red at -0.47. The equity market capitalization fell by BWP 93 million to end the day at BWP 382,236 million. From the market activity viewpoint, the market total volume was recorded at 7.899 million valued at…

Nigeria Market Watch | June 4th 2015: Nigerian Equities Market All Share Index Records Highest Decline in 8 Weeks

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Lagos, Nigeria (Capital Markets in Africa):- The Nigerian Equities market sustained its losing streak today, declining 1.2% to berth at 33,476.77pts. Market capitalization also decreased N88.6bn to settle at N11.4tn. Performance of the equities market today was broadly driven by price depreciations in banking bellwethers — ZENITH (-4.8%), UBA (-3.6%) and GUARANTY (-2.4%). Similarly, market activities weakened, as volume and value traded shrank 18.5 %( 205.8m units) and 35.9 %( N2.2bn) accordingly. NSE sector performance was…

Kenya Market Watch | June 4th 2015: Kenya equity market end in red, loses KES 130 million, indices fall

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Nairobi, Kenya (Capital Markets in Africa):- Kenya equity market continued the bearish runs. The Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE20) index plummeted by 16.17 points to close at 4,773.70 points and Nairobi All Share Index slid by 0.01 points to settle at 164.22. The FTSE NSE 25 and FTSE NSE 15 indices, however, remained flat to close the day at 218.46 and 218.09 points respectively. The market capitalization fell by KES 130 million to close at KES 2,297.13. Looking…

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