Market Insight: April 29, 2013


Africa

•  Ghana said to boost planned Dollar debt sale to $1bn from $750m
•  Sonangol of Angola to offer 54 new oil blocks over 2 years

Nigeria

•  ASI -0.34%, $10.06mill
•  Extremely quiet day to end the week with Bloomberg experiencing price feed issues
•  Nigeria approves $9bn foreign loan for infrastructure

Kenya

•  NSE20 +0.44%, $3.4mill
•  Kenya retailers may stop purchases from oil refinery

Botswana

•  DCI +22bps, $336k

Egypt

•  EGX30 +12bps, $28mill

Mauritius

•  Semdex +8bps, $374k

South Africa

•  Top40 -17bps, $1.54bn

Zambia

•  LuSE -6bps, $990k

Zimbabwe

•  Ind -6bps, mining -13bps, $561k

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

9.12

-7.11

Nigeria

NGN

158.75

-1.64

Kenya

KES

83.80

+2.74

Mauritius

MUR

31.05

-1.61

Botswana

BWP

8.18

+5.12

Tanzania

TZS

1626.00

-2.52

Uganda

UGX

2594.45

+3.21

Rwanda

RWF

632.00

-0.08

Ghana

GHS

1.96

-3.30

BRVM

XOF

505.63

-1.23

Egypt

EGP

6.92

-8.11

Morocco

MAD

8.54

-0.89

Tunisia

TND

1.61

-3.68

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