Market Watch | - Part 18

South Africa’s rand jumps to 2-month high, stocks flat

JOHANNESBURG (Capital Markets in Africa) – South Africa’s rand gained more than two percent on Thursday to hit its strongest level in two months as the dollar plunged on concerns over U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s economic strategy. Stocks were flat overall but luxury goods group Richemont gained 6 percent to reach a 10-month high after posting stronger than expected sales. By 1501 GMT the rand had gained 2.2 percent to 13.4475 per dollar, following most currencies…

MTN Drops Most in Month as Naira Traders Plan Weaker Rate vs USD

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JOHANNESBURG (Capital Markets in Africa) — Telecom operator’s shares drop after currency traders in MTN’s biggest market, Nigeria, announce plans to introduce parallel exchange rate of 399 per dollar for naira from January 16. Stock falls as much as 4.6%, trades 3% lower at 129.89 rand as of 11:57 am in Johannesburg; biggest drop since Dec. 15. Nigerian retail currency traders will set the FX rate before the central bank meeting and they’ve set it…

Nigerian Equity Market Sustains Uptrend and the All Share Index up 1.3%

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – After depreciating on the first three trading days of the year, Nigerian equities sustained the uptrend observed last Friday as the All Share Index recorded a 1.3% appreciation at the close of trade today. Performance today was largely driven by a rebound in the prices of DANGCEM (+1.2%), UCAP (+9.6%), TOTAL (+0.3%) and GUARANTY (+4.9%). Consequently, market capitalization improved N113.1bn to settle at N9.2tn. Activity, however, waned as volume and value traded declined 0.6% and 7.4% to…

Emerging Currencies Climb as Mexican Central Bank Steadies Peso

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LONDON (Capital Markets in Africa) – A gauge of emerging-market currencies rose the most in more than three months and stocks indexes jumped as the Federal Reserve signaled a gradual pace of interest rate increases. Mexico’s peso halted a three-day slump after central-bank intervention. Fed’s minutes of its December meeting released on Wednesday showed uncertainty over the impact of President-elect Donald Trump’s policies. Emerging market stocks rallied while gold extended gains to three days and copper rose…

EFG-Hermes Halted in Cairo After Surging 10% on Revenue Outlook

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CAIRO (Capital Markets in Africa) — Egyptian investment bank EFG-Hermes halted after rising 10% to 8 1/2-year-high in Cairo, leading gains among 30 members of EGX 30 benchmark, as investors see continued benefit from dollar revenue and pick-up in brokerage business, says Sherif Shebl, an equities trader at Pharos Holding for Financial Investments. Stock suspended for 30 minutes after trading above 5%, under rules of exchange Advance supported by “high exposure to dollar; plus market…

Nigerian Equities Down by 46bps, Profit-Taking in GTBank Continues

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – The Equities market closed negative today as the All Share Index (ASI) lost 46bps to settle at 26,495.04 points while YTD loss worsened to -1.4%. Consequently, investors lost N41.9bn as market capitalization settled at N9.1tn. The negative close can be attributed in sustained profit-taking in banking stocks – GUARANTY (-4.6%) and ETI (-2.4%) – and weaker appetite for WAPCO (-2.3%). Activity level was also thin as volume and value traded fell 41.7% and 36.5% to…

South African stocks start 2017 positively, rand in the red

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JOHANNESBURG (Capital Markets in Africa) – South African stocks kicked off 2017 in positive territory as a platinum rally spurred producers of the precious metal, while dollar strength knocked the volatile rand into the red. The benchmark Top-40 index gained 0.8 percent on Tuesday, the first day of trade after the long New Year weekend, to reach 44,261.26. The benchmark All-share index ended the day 0.7 percent higher at 51,020.66. Platinum producers Lonmin and Northam were…

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