African equity market

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

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…

Botswana Market Watch | May 20th 2015: Botswana stocks on uptrend

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Gaborone, Botswana (Capital Markets in Africa):- The Botswana domestic composite index kept its upward impetus by gaining 46.45 point (0.45 percent) to extended its year to date gains by almost 10% ending with 10,443.37 points. While the foreign composite index remained flat to close at 1,569 points. The equity market capitalization was recorded at BWP 381.325 billion. Looking at market activity, the total volume and total turnover were recorded at 4.091 million and BWP 29.855 million respectively. BIHL GROUP recorded…

Egypt Market Watch | May 20th 2015: Egypt equities plummet EGP 2.4bn

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Cairo, Egypt (Capital Markets in Africa):-Egyptian equity market halt it positive momentum today. The market capitalization gave up EGP 2.4 billion compared to yesterday’s gain of EGP 1.2 billion to close at EGP 500.358 billion. The benchmark index EGX30 fell by 0.58 percent or 51.2 points to close the day at 8,826.45 points (-1.12 percent year-to-date performance). On the same note, the small and mid-cap index EGX70 loss 0.38 percent to settle at 471.85 points (-16.55 percent year-to-date return),…

Ghana Market Watch | May 19th 2015: Ghana equity market closes on the south pole

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Accra, Ghana (Capital Markets in Africa):- Ghana Stock exchange close on the south pole today, with the benchmark composite index lost 3.85 points to close trading at 2316.17, representing a year- to- date return of 2.44%. On the same mood, the financial index also shed 5.5 points to 2,357.58 with a year-to-date return of 5.08%. Likewise, the market capitalization close at GHS 64,323.73 million (a lost of 0.03% from previous market cap). However, the stock market witnessed improved activity today with volumes and…

Cote d’Ivoire Market Watch | May 19th 2015: BRVM shed XOF 30bn, indices lost 0.58%

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Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire (Capital Markets in Africa):- BRVM (The Regional Stock Exchange of eight West Africa) BRVM closed its trading session this Tuesday, lower than the previous day. BRVM 10 index decreased from 273.19 to 271.61 points, a drop of 0.58%. BRVM Composite index lost 0.46% to 262.37 against 263.58 points previously. The equity market capitalization was recorded at XOF 6,474.20 compared to XOF 6,503.90 billion previously (a decrease of almost XOF 30 billion). From market activity…

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