Market Insight: April 23, 2014


Nigeria

•  ASI +6bps, $17.6mill
•  The banking index witnessed buying interest in the likes of UBA (+6.86%, N5.61), Access bank (+0.15%, N6.74) and FBNH (+0.96%, N10.54) to close up 0.93%.

Kenya

•  NSE20 -61bps, $7.1mill
•  Foreign selling pressure in large caps Safcom (-0.9%, KES17.05), Equity bank (-0.5%, KES48) and EABL (-2.7%, KES320) pulled the index into negative territory.

Botswana

•  DCI -2bps, $85k

Mauritius

•  Semdex +32bps, $2.2mil

Zimbabwe

•  Ind +15bps, $2.2mill

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

12.18

-5.06

Nigeria

NGN

199.03

-7.83

Kenya

KES

93.85

-3.46

Mauritius

MUR

36.01

-11.84

Botswana

BWP

9.96

-4.52

Tanzania

TZS

1912.50

-9.39

Uganda

UGX

3007.00

-7.85

Rwanda

RWF

707.60

-2.51

Ghana

GHS

3.84

-16.21

BRVM

XOF

614.11

-11.73

Egypt

EGP

7.57

-5.62

Morocco

MAD

9.98

-9.07

Tunisia

TND

1.96

-4.96

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