African stock market

Ghana Market Watch | June 9th 2015: Ghana equity composite Index gains 0.54% and market cap up GHS 245 million

Accra, Ghana (Capital Markets in Africa):- Ghana equity markets indices and market capitalization increased at the end of today’s trading session. The benchmark composite index gained 12.81 points (about 0.54 percent) to end the day at 2,386.51, bringing the year- to- date return to 5.55 percent. Equally, the financial Index rose by 12.39 points or 0.51 percent to 2,439.90 with a year-to-date return of 8.75 percent. Alike, the market capitalization added nearly GHS 245.15 million (0.38 percent) to settle at GHS 64,798.53 million….

Mauritius Market Watch | June 9th 2015: Mauritius equity market extends positive run, market cap adds MUR 188 million

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Port Louis, Mauritius (Capital Markets in Africa):- Mauritius equity market continued on a positive territory today, the SEMDEX index went up by 0.09 percent to reach 1,976.34 points and the Sem-10 rose by 0.17 percent to 375.59 points. The market capitalization was recorded at MUR 219.724 billion (against MUR 219.536 billion recorded yesterday) and overall total volume trade recorded at 3.964 million and turnover amounted to MUR 47.899 million. SBM Holdings Limited recorded 3.312 million…

Mauritius Market Watch | June 8th 2015: Mauritius equity market composite index up by 20bps

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Port Louis, Mauritius (Capital Markets in Africa):- Mauritius equity market indices starts in a positive territory today, the SEMDEX index went up by 0.20 percent to reach 1,974.65 points and the Sem-10 rose by 0.22 percent to 374.96 points. The market capitalization was recorded at MUR 219.536 billion (against MUR 219.108 billion recorded on Friday) and overall total volume trade recorded at 5.8 million and turnover amounted to MUR 65.609 million. The market sentiment was…

Mauritius Market Watch | June 5th 2015: Mauritius equity market indices end the week on positive note

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Port Louis, Mauritius (Capital Markets in Africa):- Mauritius equity market indices end in a positive territory today, the SEMDEX index went up by 0.16 percent to reach 1,970.79 points and the Sem-10 rose by 0.16 percent to 374.42 points. The market capitalization was recorded at MUR 219.108 billion and overall total volume trade recorded at 38.414 million and turnover amounted to MUR 50.867 million, mainly geared towards SBM Holdings which accounted for almost 70 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…

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…

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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