Market Insight: April 09, 2013


Africa

•  Please remember it is a holiday in Kenya today – the market will be closed
•  Ghana’s Tema Oil refinery restarts production after 8 month shutdown

Nigeria

•  ASI +1.54%, $32.44m
•  Bulls continue to dominate in Nigeria despite profit taking in the banks. Consumers and Dangcem in focus. Lots of focus on the normally illiquid IHS bumped up turnover
•  Diamond Bank CFO Yinusa says the bank may look to raise up to $750mill to finance increase in lending

Kenya

•  NSE20 -0.10%, $2.5m
•  Please remember it is a holiday in Kenya today

Botswana

•  DCI +0.06%, $56k

Egypt

•  EGX30 +1.59%, 47m

Mauritius

•  Semdex +0.19%, $337k

South Africa

•  Top40 +0.19%, $1.44bn

Zambia

•  LuSE -0.33%, $618k

Zimbabwe

•  Ind +0.53%, Mining +1.24%, $1.06m

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

9.02

-6.13

Nigeria

NGN

157.65

-0.95

Kenya

KES

84.48

+1.92

Mauritius

MUR

31.15

-1.93

Botswana

BWP

8.12

+4.35

Tanzania

TZS

1620.00

-2.16

Uganda

UGX

2600.00

+2.99

Rwanda

RWF

634.50

-0.48

Ghana

GHS

1.94

-2.06

BRVM

XOF

506.40

-1.41

Egypt

EGP

6.84

-7.09

Morocco

MAD

8.55

-1.07

Tunisia

TND

1.59

-2.07

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