Market Insight: April 16, 2014


Africa

•  Tanzania President says capital controls to be eased by 2015
•  Zimbabwe Consumer prices fell for second consecutive month in March

Nigeria

•  ASI +59bps, $21.8m
•  Crosses in NB, Zenith and GTb dominiated a quiet day. Good activity in Transcor after 2014 Q1 results. Banks strong (+1.54%) driven by Access (+3%), GTB (+3%) and Zenith (+1.8%)
•  Inflation accelerates to 7.8% in March on higher food and dairy prices

Kenya

•  NSE20 +4bps, $6.6m
•  Safcom extended its gains as it rose by 1.9% to KES 13.10

Botswana

•  DCI +13bps, $756k

Egypt

•  EGX30 +1.79%, $127m

Mauritius

•  Semdex -6bps, $1.55m

Zimbabwe

•  Ind -1.91%,Mining unch, $2.9m

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

10.55

-0.60

Nigeria

NGN

161.70

-0.87

Kenya

KES

86.88

-0.66

Mauritius

MUR

30.05

unch

Botswana

BWP

8.74

+0.04

Tanzania

TZS

1633.00

-2.63

Uganda

UGX

2517.00

+0.40

Rwanda

RWF

684.02

-1.17

Ghana

GHS

2.77

-14.41

BRVM

XOF

477.57

+0.55

Egypt

EGP

6.98

-0.49

Morocco

MAD

8.14

+0.49

Tunisia

TND

1.58

+4.01

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