Market Insight: August 21, 2013


Nigeria

•  ASI -0.66%, $11.75m
•  Very dull day across the board as soft selling in consumers (-66bps) and banks (-44bps) pull the ASI down, but this was mostly due to lack of interest

Kenya

•  NSE20 -0.22%, $5.2m
•  Active trading in EABL (-2.18%, KES 314) with local selling the main push lower ahead of earnings release on Friday

Botswana

•  DCI -0.07%, $3.93m

Egypt

•  EGX30 +1.08%, $56m

Mauritius

•  Semdex +0.10%, $1.8m

South Africa

•  Top40 -0.29%, $1.23bn

Zambia

•  LuSE +1.78%, $163k

Zimbabwe

•  Ind -1.25%, Mining unch, $4.04m

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

10.15

-16.53

Nigeria

NGN

161.50

-3.31

Kenya

KES

87.50

-1.49

Mauritius

MUR

30.65

-0.33

Botswana

BWP

8.60

+10.59

Tanzania

TZS

1617.00

-1.98

Uganda

UGX

2562.50

+3.29

Rwanda

RWF

660.43

-4.39

Ghana

GHS

2.14

-11.21

BRVM

XOF

488.55

+2.19

Egypt

EGP

6.98

-8.95

Morocco

MAD

8.33

+1.52

Tunisia

TND

1.63

-5.16

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