Market Insight: August 02, 2012


African Currencies as at GMT 15:30

 
Country
Notation
Currency
 
South Africa
ZAR
8.2706
 
Nigeria
NGN
160.8625
 
Kenya
KES
83.95
 
Mauritius
MUR
30.80
 
Botswana
BWP
7.7131
 
Tanzania
TZS
1586.50
 
Uganda
UGX
2480.00
 
Rwanda
RWF
606.8438
 
Ghana
GHS
1.9541
 
BRVM
XOF
535.51
 
Egypt
EGP
6.0749
 
Morocco
MAD
8.9590
 
Tunisia
TND
1.6214

Africa

•  Ivory Coast coastal farmers say drought threatens main crop harvest
•  Statoil and Tanzania to begin talks about building a liquefied natural gas plant

Nigeria

•  ASI +1.16%, $17.9mill.
•  The global rally finally flowed through to Nigeria, once again the banks leading the activity chart with Zenith accounting for half the vols.
•  A bounce in DangCem of 3.51% ahead of results also drove the index north

Kenya

•  NSE20 -18bps, $3.21mill
•  Consolidated Bank of Kenya postpones bond listing until 13 Aug

Botswana

•  DCI -12bps, $355k

Egypt

•  EGX30 +1.50%, $57mill

Mauritius

•  Semdex +10bps, $1mill

South Africa

•  Top40 +1.56%, $1.42bn

Zambia

•  LuSE +8bps, $19k

Zimbabwe

•  Ind -21bps, Mining -4.94%, $2.2mill
 

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