Market Insight: August 01, 2014


Africa

•  Facebook partners with Airtel in Zambia to offers free internet in Zambia
•  Zambia July consumer prices rise 8.0% from year earlier

Nigeria

•  ASI -64bps, $42.7mill
•  Large crosses in Nestle ($12.7m) drove activity yesterday
•  A number of companies continued to release H1 2014 results yesterday

Kenya

•  NSE20 +31bps, $8.3mill
•  KNCB released H1 2014 results yesterday with quite a bit of action in the name

Botswana

•  DCI +7bps, $2.31mill

Mauritius

•  Semdex +44bps, $1.22mill

Zimbabwe

•  Ind +38bps, $628k

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

10.71

-2.02

Nigeria

NGN

161.95

-1.02

Kenya

KES

87.80

-1.71

Mauritius

MUR

30.55

-1.64

Botswana

BWP

8.87

-1.57

Tanzania

TZS

1660.00

-4.22

Uganda

UGX

2621.25

-3.60

Rwanda

RWF

690.25

-2.06

Ghana

GHS

3.45

-31.26

BRVM

XOF

492.89

-2.59

Egypt

EGP

7.14

-2.82

Morocco

MAD

8.35

-2.10

Tunisia

TND

1.72

-4.46

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