Market Insight: April 18, 2012


Africa

•  The IMF says that Sub-Saharan Africa will grow 5.4% this year on oil output
•  Mauritius tourist arrivals decline as Europe visitors drop
•  Ugandan credit February credit growth slows to 20.8%

Nigeria

•  ASI +32bps, $20.66mill
•  First Bank released FY 2011 results with PAT increasing 53%, and announced a dividend of 80 kobo

Kenya

•  NSE20 +50bps, $5.26mill
•  SCAN have just released results with PAT increasing 42%

Botswana

•  DCI -6bps, $427k

Egypt

•  EGX 30 -119bps, $43mill

Mauritius

•  Semdex -30bps, $847k

South Africa

•  Top40 +35bps, $1.38bn

Zambia

•  LuSE -8bps, $57k

Zimbabwe

•  Ind -53bps, Mining +75bps, $499k. Please note that the Zimbabwean market will be closed due to Independence Day celebrations today
 

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