Market Insight: April 28, 2014


Africa

•  Zimbabwe to oust miners from gem field over missing revenue
•  Zambia mines crippled by%500m in tax dispute, chamber says
•  Ivory Coast former ruling party may end boycott in 2015 vote

Nigeria

•  ASI -29bps, $16.32mill
•  Ctivity slowed quite drastically last Friday

Kenya

•  NSE20 +67bps, $13.9mill
•  Foreign buying drove both the market higher and activity on Friday

Botswana

•  DCI -18bps, $308k

Egypt

•  EGX30 -57bps, $88mill

Mauritius

•  Semdex +6bps, $1.16mill

Zimbabwe

•  Ind +44bps, mining unch, $1.21mill

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

10.63

-1.36

Nigeria

NGN

160.95

-0.40

Kenya

KES

86.85

-0.63

Mauritius

MUR

30.23

-0.61

Botswana

BWP

8.80

-0.61

Tanzania

TZS

1643.00

-3.23

Uganda

UGX

2510.00

+0.68

Rwanda

RWF

681.00

-0.73

Ghana

GHS

2.79

-14.87

BRVM

XOF

477.06

+0.66

Egypt

EGP

6.99

-0.64

Morocco

MAD

8.12

+0.76

Tunisia

TND

1.59

+3.23

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