African Stock Exchanges

African Stock Market Performance at the end of May, 2015

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…

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…

Nigeria Market Watch | June 3rd 2015: Nigerian Equities Market In Search of Direction… All Share Index down 54bps

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Lagos, Nigeria (Capital Markets in Africa):- The gain recorded on the Nigerian bourse yesterday was not sustained during today’s trade as the All Share Index (ASI) declined 54bps to close at 33,879.21pts. Hence, investors lost the sum N62.1bn as market capitalisation settled at N11.5tn. Today’s decline was majorly driven by declines in the Oil & Gas and Banking baskets — FORTE OIL (-5.0%) and GUARANTY (-3.7%) respectively. Market activities were however mixed as volume improved by…

Mauritius Market Watch | June 3rd 2015: Mauritius equity market maintains positive trend…

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Port Louis, Mauritius (Capital Markets in Africa):-Mauritius equity market indices maintained positive trend during the session. The Semdex went up by 0.14 percent to 1959.73 points while the SEM-10 gained 0.17 percent to close at 371.45 points. Looking at the market activity, today’s overall turnover on the market amounted to 53.0m and was mainly geared towards CFS and SBMH which accounted for 78.2 percent. CFS gained 0.4 percent to MUR 9.78 on a total volume of 2.4…

Nigeria Market Watch | June 2nd 2015: Nigerian Equities Market Defies Presidential Silence…NSE ASI up 5bps

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Lagos, Nigeria (Capital Markets in Africa):- Despite a presidential silence on key policy direction and appointment of key cabinet members, the Nigerian All Share index (ASI) added 5bps today as against previous session to close at 34,061.89 points. Today’s gain was broadly driven by price appreciation in Consumer Goods tickers such as NIGERIAN BREWERIES (+2.0%) and UNILEVER (+0.9%). Market capitalization advanced N5.9bn to close N11.6tn while activity level measured by volume and value decreased 34.2% and…

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