Market Watch | - Part 185

Botswana Market Watch | May 21st 2015: Botswana equity market continues the positive trend

Gaborone, Botswana (Capital Markets in Africa):- The Botswana domestic composite index continued to head northwards, gaining 0.1% to extend its year-to-date growth by 10.02%. However, the foreign composite index remained flat to close at 1,569 points and year-to-date return is still in the red, reflecting the depressed international commodity market. The equity market capitalization was recorded at BWP 381.285 billion losing BWP 45 million compared to yesterday’s market cap. The market activity was thin today compared to previous trading day; the…

Nigeria Market Watch | May 21st 2015: Nigerian Equities Maintains 3-Day Losing Streak

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Lagos, Nigeria (Capital Markets in Africa):-The Nigerian Bourse suffered a third straight day of losses as the benchmark index- All Share Index- lost 21bps to close at 34, 459.8points. This decline was broadly driven by losses recorded in SEPLAT (-3.6%), ZENITH (-0.9%) and NIGERIAN BREWERIES (-0.4%). In light of this, market capitalization also declined by N25.0bn to close at N11.7tn for the day. Similarly, market activity weakened as volume and value traded declined 89.6% and 75.3%…

Mauritius Market Watch | May 21st 2015: Mauritius equity market indices were up during the session

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Port Louis, Mauritius (Capital Markets in Africa):-Mauritius equity market indices were up during the session. The Semdex and the SEM-10 gained 0.17 percent and 0.34 percent respectively. Market turnover amounted to MUR 19.4m mainly geared towards SUN, CIEL and MCB Group which accounted for 55.9 percent of total market turnover. From the market movers’ viewpoint, MCB Group reached low of MUR 204.75 before closing unchanged at MUR 205.00 on 9,500 shares exchanged. Whilst SBM Holdings grew by 1.1 percent to MUR…

Egypt Market Watch | May 21st 2015: Egypt equities surge by EGP 4.2bn

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Cairo, Egypt (Capital Markets in Africa):-Egyptian equity market halt it positive momentum today. The market capitalization gave up EGP 4.2 billion compared to yesterday’s loss of EGP 2.4 billion to close at EGP 504.532 billion. The benchmark index EGX30 rose by 1.8 percent or 161.58 points to close the day at 8,988.03 points (0.69 percent year-to-date performance). On the same note, the small and mid-cap index EGX70 gained 1.85 percent to settle at 480.58 points (-15.00 percent year-to-date return)….

Ghana Market Watch | May 20th 2015: Ghana equity market bounces to bullish

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Accra, Ghana (Capital Markets in Africa):- Ghana equity markets bounced back from yesterday’s slide with gains in two banking stocks propelling the indices. The benchmark Composite Index gained 1.16 points to close trading at 2,317.33, representing a year- to- date return of 2.49%. The Financial Index also added 6.78 points to 2,364.36 with a year-to-date return of 5.38%. The market capitalization was recorded at GHS 64,330.06 million (added GHS 6.3 million from previous market cap). At the close of trading, a total…

Nigeria Market Watch | May 20th 2015: Nigerian Equities Market shed 0.5% and market cap declined N58.7bn

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Lagos, Nigeria (Capital Markets in Africa):- The Nigerian Equities Market shed 0.5% to close at 34,533.40pts due to losses in bellwether stocks such as GUARANTY (-2.3%) and NESTLE (-2.8%). Similarly, market capitalization declined N58.7bn to berth at N11.3tn. Nonetheless, market activity measured by volume and value traded increased significantly by 426.8% (1.9bn units) and 32.4% (N5.5bn). The unusual spike in volume traded was majorly due to the 1.5bn units (21.5% of LASACO‘s shares outstanding) of LASACO…

Kenya Market Watch | May 20th 2015: Market cap gains 0.27%, Indices lose..

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Nairobi, Kenya (Capital Markets in Africa):- The Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE20) index declined by 17.26 percent to 4,924.25 points and Nairobi All Share Index added 0.45 points to close at 167.38. At the same time, the market capitalization gained 0.27 percent to close at KES 2,341.38 billion. Looking at the market activities, OLYMPIA HOLDINGS surged by 8.70 percent to close at KES 5.00 to become today trading sessions’ top gainer. It is followed by TOTAL Kenya which rose…

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