Market Insight: August 19, 2013


Africa

•  Uganda will open bidding for oil refinery investors by September
•  Zimbabwe stocks fell for an 8th straight session after Mugabe win

Nigeria

•  ASI -0.34%, $22.39mill
•  Banks closed the day weaker with the Bank 10 Index falling 34bps

Kenya

•  NSE20 +0.63%, $13.5mill
•  KNCB, EQBNK and Safcom drove activity as foreign investors were active in the names

Botswana

•  DCI +14bps, $135k

Egypt

•  Closed

Mauritius

•  Semdex +25bps, $1.31mill

South Africa

•  Top40 +140bps, $1.26bn

Zambia

•  LuSE +5bps, $4k

Zimbabwe

•  Ind -125bps, mining -1446bps, $15.2mill

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

10.00

-15.29

Nigeria

NGN

161.41

-3.26

Kenya

KES

87.38

-1.46

Mauritius

MUR

30.70

-0.49

Botswana

BWP

8.54

+9.82

Tanzania

TZS

1617.00

-1.98

Uganda

UGX

2580.00

+3.79

Rwanda

RWF

660.09

-4.34

Ghana

GHS

2.13

-10.80

BRVM

XOF

493.12

+1.25

Egypt

EGP

6.99

-8.96

Morocco

MAD

8.39

+0.91

Tunisia

TND

1.65

-5.98

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