Market Insight: August 07, 2012


African Currencies as at approximately GMT 16:30

 
Country
Notation
Currency
 
South Africa
ZAR
8.1454
 
Nigeria
NGN
161.6250
 
Kenya
KES
84.10
 
Mauritius
MUR
30.75
 
Botswana
BWP
7.6687
 
Tanzania
TZS
1572.50
 
Uganda
UGX
2487.50
 
Rwanda
RWF
613.2620
 
Ghana
GHS
1.9567
 
BRVM
XOF
530.4001
 
Egypt
EGP
6.0787
 
Morocco
MAD
8.8915
 
Tunisia
TND
1.6063

Africa

•  Ivory Coast military camp attack leaves six soldiers dead
•  South Sudan, Sudan will meet “soon” to conclude oil accord

Nigeria

•  ASI -44bps, $11.28mill
•  Rather quiet day yesterday aside from a few crosses

Kenya

•  NSE20 -34bps, $1.96mill
•  Extremely slow day yesterday
•  Kenya tribunal wants deputy chief justice fired over gun threat

Botswana

•  DCI unch, $114k

Egypt

•  EGX 30 -25bps, $62m

Mauritius

•  Semdex +29bps, $629k

South Africa

•  Top40 +68bps, $1.01bn

Zambia

•  Closed yesterday for a public holiday

Zimbabwe

•  Ind -25bps, Mining -157bps, $3.1mill
 

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