Market Insight: August 23, 2013


Nigeria

•  ASI +0.60%, $22.29m
•  The day ticked along at a very slow rate for most of the day until some chunky crosses in the normally illiquid Glaxo Smithkline lit up the volumes. Pleasantly the market rebounded to show some strength after the recent softness

Kenya

•  NSE20 -0.34%, $7.2m
•  Crosses in KNCB again spiked up volumes with locals dominating trading

Botswana

•  DCI -0.09%, $923k

Egypt

•  EGX30 +0.65%, $43m

Mauritius

•  Semdex +0.48%, $1.43m

South Africa

•  Top40 +0.76%, $1.33bn

Zambia

•  LuSE +0.01%, $4k

Zimbabwe

•  Closed yesterday

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

10.28

-17.67

Nigeria

NGN

161.85

-3.52

Kenya

KES

87.50

-1.60

Mauritius

MUR

30.75

-0.65

Botswana

BWP

8.71

+11.84

Tanzania

TZS

1617.00

-1.98

Uganda

UGX

2578.00

+3.87

Rwanda

RWF

653.23

-3.33

Ghana

GHS

2.15

-11.42

BRVM

XOF

493.27

+1.21

Egypt

EGP

6.98

-8.94

Morocco

MAD

8.37

+1.22

Tunisia

TND

1.64

-5.74

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