Nigeria
The Nigerian equities market reversed yesterday's bearish performance as the All Share Index appreciated 0.5% to close at 25,885.31 points. Market capitalization in turn increased N46.8bn to close at N8.9tn lessening YTD loss to 9.6%. Today's positive performance was on account of bargain hunting in DANGCEM (+0.5%) and ZENITH (+1.7%) – both Industrial Goods and Banking bellwethers respectively. However, activity level waned as volume and value traded dipped 0.1% and 4bps to close at 215.0m units and N1.4bn respectively.
Kenya
The NSE-20, NSE-25 and NASI garnered 9.96pts, 14.80pts and 0.17pts to close at 3,951.42, 4,204.03 and 144.93 respectively. Market capitalization closed at KES 2,041.15bn (USD 20.09bn) being 0.12% higher. The number of shares traded came off by 37.75% to 18.89m. The total turnover expanded by 13.63% to KES 915.04m (USD 9.01m).
CFC Stanbic of Kenya Holdings gained 4.2% to close at KES 87.50 as the day’s highest gainer whereas Longhorn Publishers was the top decliner shedding 8.2% to close at KES 5.05. Safaricom was the day’s top mover having traded 5.78m shares to account for 30% of total shares traded.
Ghana
The GSE Composite Index lost 0.22 points to close at 1,970.62 representing a year-to-date loss of 1.22 %. At the end of today's trading session, a total of 33,994 shares valued at GH¢19317.86 were traded. Eight equities traded with one gainer and two losers. SOGEGH gained one pesewa to close at GH¢0.81 per share. On the other hand, EGH and SIC lost one pesewa to close at GH¢7.03 and GH¢0.18 per share respectively.
Tanzania
Today, DSE recorded a total turnover of TZS 552.85 mln from 991,503 shares traded in 61 deals compared to the previous session which recorded a turnover of TZS 5,688.16 mln from 463,914 shares traded in 62 deals.
Zimbabwe
The Industrial index went up by a marginal 0.01 points (0.01%) to close at 98.97 points as CBZ (CBZ.zw) was the only counter that gained ground closing at $0.1050 after a $0.0050 gain.
Trading in the negative; NATIONAL FOODS (NTFD.zw) slipped by $0.0387 to trade at $2.4113 while NICOZ DIAMOND (NICO.zw) shed $0.0010 to settle at $0.0150. Activity was limited to nine counters.
The Mining index was flat at 19.14 points. BINDURA (BIND.zw), FALGOLD (FALG.zw), HWANGE (HCCL.zw) and RIOZIM (RIOZ.zw) maintained previous price levels at $0.0095, $0.0050, $0.0300 and $0.1040 respectively.
