Market Insight: August 01, 2012


African Currencies as at GMT 15:30

 
Country
Notation
Currency
 
South Africa
ZAR
8.2215
 
Nigeria
NGN
160.70
 
Kenya
KES
84.30
 
Mauritius
MUR
31.05
 
Botswana
BWP
7.7042
 
Tanzania
TZS
1585.00
 
Uganda
UGX
2485.00
 
Rwanda
RWF
607.0134
 
Ghana
GHS
1.9565
 
BRVM
XOF
534.9001
 
Egypt
EGP
6.0772
 
Morocco
MAD
8.9515
 
Tunisia
TND
1.6176

Africa

•  South African jobless rate falls to 24.9% in second quarter
•  Aluworks Ghana to almost triple output with new mill facility
•  Rwanda’s first quarter GDP expands to 1.01 Trillion Francs
•  Zimbabwe ownership policy dents confidence in banking, Gono says

Nigeria

•  ASI -103bps, $23.7mmill
•  Substantial pickup in activity yesterday
•  Nigerian lenders African expansion face new regulator rules
•  Nigerian gunmen kill 1 in attack on vice president’s house

Kenya

•  NSE20 -57bps, $1.39mill
•  Extremely quiet day yesterday
•  Inflation fell for an eighth straight month in July, falling to 7.7% from 10.1% in June

Botswana

•  DCI -11bps, $65k

Egypt

•  EGX 30 +203bps, $68mill

Mauritius

•  Semdex -8bps, $1.28mill

South Africa

•  Top40 -126bps, $1.59bn

Zambia

•  LuSE +5bps, $237k

Zimbabwe

•  Ind -41bps, Mining -39bps, $2.9m
 

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