Market Insight: April 17, 2012


Africa

•  Zimbabwe orders miners to resubmit exploration applications
•  Ghana signs $1bn lending agreement with China Development Bank for natural gas project
•  Mauritius to make changes to electoral system and introduce new rules on how political parties are financed

Nigeria

•  ASI -10bps, $7.84mill. Quiet day in Nigeria punctuated by a number of company results releases, most notably Dangsuga, Skye Bank, Fidelity Bank and Nigerian Breweries

Kenya

•  NSE20 -36bps, $2.84mill

Botswana

•  DCI -27bps, $416k

Egypt

•  Reopens today after the Easter break

Mauritius

•  Semdex -23bps, $1.43mill

South Africa

•  Top40 -12bps, $1.57bn

Zambia

•  +50bps, $66k

Zimbabwe

•  Ind -90bps, Mining unch, $472k
 

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