African equity market

Zimbabwe Market Watch | June 23rd 2015: Zimbabwe equities walk in red district, market cap US$37 million down and index falls 85bps.

Harare, Zimbabwe (Capital Markets in Africa):- The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) industrial index and market capitalization continued in red paths today. The industrial index fell by 0.85 percent or 1.29 points to end at 150.65 points. Equally, the market capitalization slumped by US$37 million to end at US$3.914 billion (against US$3.951 market cap recorded at previous trading session). The market activity was buoyant today with a turnover of US$948.472 (relative to US$ 191,706 recorded yesterday) exchanged…

Kenya Market Watch | June 22nd 2015: Kenya equity market starts on a bullish sentiment, market cap KES 13.2 billion gains

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Nairobi, Kenya (Capital Markets in Africa):- Kenya equity markets started the week on a bullish sentiment today. The Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE20) index edged up by 1.86 points or 0.04 percent to close at 4,780.48 points and Nairobi All Share Index rose by 0.52 points or 0.52 percent to settle at 163.34. However, the FTSE NSE 25 and FTSE NSE 15 indices dropped by 0.16 points or 0.07 percent to close at 215.37 and 0.24 points or…

Cote d’Ivoire Market Watch | June 22nd 2015: BRVM Equity markets begin higher today, market cap XOF 37 billion

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Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire (Capital Markets in Africa):- BRVM (The Regional Stock Exchange of eight West Africa) closed its trading session this Monday, higher than the previous day. BRVM 10 index rose from 270.71 to 272.20 points, a gain of 0.55 percent. BRVM Composite index gained 0.55 percent to 274.12 against 272.62 points previously. In the same way, the equity market capitalization edged by XOF 37.02 billion to close at XOF 6,764.09 billion compared with previous trading…

Nigeria Market Watch | June 22nd 2015: Bellwethers Raise Benchmark Index…NSE ASI up 38bps

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Lagos, Nigeria (Capital Markets in Africa) —The Nigerian All Share Index inched up 0.4% to 33,384.59 points. Market capitalization also rose N43.2bn to berth at N11.4tr at the close of market. Today’s performance was majorly driven by price appreciation in key counters such as NIGERIAN BREWERIES (+1.7%), DANGOTE CEMENT (+0.3%) and UBN (+2.7%). However, market activity softened as volume and value eased 28.8% and 21.0% to close at 278.1m units and N3.8bn respectively. Sell offs…

South Africa Market Watch | June 22nd 2015: South African stocks edge higher on Greece hopes

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Johannesburg, South Africa (Capital Markets in Africa) – Financial shares were the big winners on Monday on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) as the local market was lifted by a wave of optimism that Greece and its international creditors would strike a last-minute deal that will see the Greek government avert default. The Financial index has been under pressure lately despite being oversold. This is because any fallout over the Greek crisis will hit this…

Mauritius Market Watch | June 22nd 2015: Mauritius equity market starts on red, SEMDEX 0.07% falls, Market Cap MUR 147 million down

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Port Louis, Mauritius (Capital Markets in Africa):- Mauritius equity markets started the week on bearish mood. The Mauritius All Share Index (SEMDEX index) marginally lost 0.07 percent or 1.32 points to close 1,985.72 points and the SEM10 fell by 0.13 percent or 0.49 points to end at 379.74 points. The market capitalization was recorded at MUR 220.767 billion, by falling by MUR 147 million (against MUR 220.914 billion recorded at previous trading day) and overall total volume trade recorded…

Morocco Market Watch | June 22nd 2015: Morocco equity market begins the week on a negative mood, indices down and market cap MAD 1.11 billion falls

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Casablanca, Morocco (Capital Markets in Africa):- Morocco equity market began the week on a negative note. The Moroccan benchmark stock index (measured as MASI Index) decreased by 0.34 percent to close at 9,548.78 points (with a year-to-date performance to -0.74 percent) with total market capitalization at MAD 485.210 billion (gave away nearly MAD 1.11 billion against previous trading session market cap of MAD 486.316 billion) and market activities measured as total traded value was recorded at…

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