Market Insight: April 22, 2014


Nigeria

•  ASI -61bps, $16.7mill
•  The banking index shed 0.61% although Tier 1 banking names accounted for 63% of total turnover.

Kenya

•  NSE20 -55bps, $7.3mill
•  The index retreated into negative territory after days of promise whilst foreign interests were mainly geared towards KCB (+0.8%, KES64.50) and Equity Bank (+1.6%, N48.25) trading a total of 3.6m and 2.6m shares respectively.

Botswana

•  DCI +27bps, $281k

Mauritius

•  Semdex -22bps, $1.8mil

Zimbabwe

•  Ind +25bps, $1.7mill

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

12.14

-4.74

Nigeria

NGN

197.13

-6.94

Kenya

KES

93.80

-3.41

Mauritius

MUR

36.05

-11.93

Botswana

BWP

9.93

-4.29

Tanzania

TZS

1920.00

-9.74

Uganda

UGX

3006.00

-7.82

Rwanda

RWF

707.60

-2.51

Ghana

GHS

3.84

-16.32

BRVM

XOF

614.93

-11.84

Egypt

EGP

7.62

-6.16

Morocco

MAD

10.01

-9.33

Tunisia

TND

1.96

-5.20

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