Market Insight: August 26, 2013

Africa


•  Zimbabwe plans to build $300m leisure resort in Victoria Falls

Nigeria

•  ASI +0.04%, $19.05m
•  Crosses again dominated the session with buying in the consumers (+62bps) returning to the market

Kenya

•  NSE20 +0.15%, $19m
•  Large blocks in BATK (both sides foreign) the main focus of the day. EABL released FY13 results which seemed to please the market (+98bps to KES 308)

Botswana

•  DCI -0.23%, $416k

Egypt

•  Closed

Mauritius

•  Semdex +0.42%, $748k

South Africa

•  Top40 -0.06%, $1.14bn

Zambia

•  N/A

Zimbabwe

•  Ind +0.41%, Mining +0.19%, $2.04m

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

10.20

-16.95

Nigeria

NGN

161.40

-3.25

Kenya

KES

87.59

-1.70

Mauritius

MUR

30.80

-0.81

Botswana

BWP

8.67

+11.40

Tanzania

TZS

1617.00

-1.98

Uganda

UGX

2577.50

+3.89

Rwanda

RWF

650.50

-2.93

Ghana

GHS

2.15

-11.42

BRVM

XOF

492.04

+1.49

Egypt

EGP

6.98

-8.92

Morocco

MAD

8.35

+1.32

Tunisia

TND

1.63

-4.77

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