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Market Insight: April 03, 2014
Africa
• Diamond’s Atlas Mara to arrange Zimbabwe bond
• Ghana raises bank cash limits to boost Africa’s worst performing currency
• Uganda gets competition as second market plans derivatives
• Uganda central bank leaves benchmark rate unchanged at 11.5%
Nigeria
• ASI +22bps, $27.91mill
• Crosses once again dominated activity and this time in the form of NB and Zenith
• Banks continued to rally with the Index gaining +0.27%
Kenya
• NSE20 -59bps, $3.2mill
• Very quiet yesterday with foreigners all but absent
• Kenya will create sovereign wealth fund before crude output
Botswana
• DCI +8bps, $840k
Egypt
• EGX30 +13bps, $110.8mill
Mauritius
• Semdex +22bps, $649k
Zimbabwe
• Ind -18bps, mining unch, $1.57mill
African Currencies
|
Country |
Notation |
Currency |
YTD % |
|
South Africa |
ZAR |
10.61 |
-1.16 |
|
Nigeria |
NGN |
163.95 |
-2.23 |
|
Kenya |
KES |
86.45 |
-0.17 |
|
Mauritius |
MUR |
30.11 |
-0.21 |
|
Botswana |
BWP |
8.81 |
-0.70 |
|
Tanzania |
TZS |
1633.00 |
-2.63 |
|
Uganda |
TZSUGX |
2545.00 |
-0.71 |
|
Rwanda |
RWF |
681.51 |
-0.81 |
|
Ghana |
GHS |
2.70 |
-12.04 |
|
BRVM |
XOF |
479.33 |
+0.16 |
|
Egypt |
EGP |
6.97 |
-0.33 |
|
Morocco |
MAD |
8.16 |
+0.15 |
|
Tunisia |
TND |
1.58 |
+3.86 |
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