Market Insight: August 01, 2013


Africa

•  Angola takes step toward Kwanza trade as Dollar sales halved
•  Libya average oil output for August 640,000 bbl/ day
•  Egypt’s military does no wrong in eyes of weary citizens
•  Zimbabwe to head African tourism commission

Nigeria

•  ASI -0.14%, $14.9mill
•  Exceptionally quiet day yesterday with the U.K Bank Holiday
•  Heineken units in Nigeria to exchange Champions Breweries stake

Kenya

•  NSE20 +0.24%, $11.4mill
•  Crosses in Equity Bank drove activity

Botswana

•  DCI +52bps, $756k

Egypt

•  EGX30 -44bps, $48mill

Mauritius

•  Semdex +31bps, $1.13m

South Africa

•  Top40 +65bps, $695m

Zambia

•  N/A

Zimbabwe

•  Ind -20bps, mining unch, $590k

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

10.25

-17.38

Nigeria

NGN

161.40

-3.25

Kenya

KES

87.45

-1.54

Mauritius

MUR

30.75

-0.65

Botswana

BWP

8.67

+11.45

Tanzania

TZS

1617.00

-1.98

Uganda

UGX

2576.50

+3.93

Rwanda

RWF

651.58

-3.09

Ghana

GHS

2.15

-11.42

BRVM

XOF

490.45

+1.80

Egypt

EGP

6.98

-8.90

Morocco

MAD

8.36

+1.20

Tunisia

TND

1.64

-5.74

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