Market Insight: August 30, 2013


Nigeria

•  ASI +0.28%, $32.28m
•  Mammoth local cross in ETI of 175m shares just before the close bumped up volumes. Cross in Wapco at the start also a big part in an otherwise dull day

Kenya

•  NSE20 -0.72%, $17.2m
•  Chunky Safcom action the bulk of the day’s turnover. KNCB released H1 2013 results which seemed to disappoint as the name closed down 60bps. EABL continues to weaken as foreign selling pushed the name down 5% to KES 286

Botswana

•  DCI +14bps, $56k

Egypt

•  EGX30 +0.80%, $33m

Mauritius

•  Semdex +0.27%, $1.17m

South Africa

•  Top40 +0.30%, $1.39bn

Zambia

•  N/A

Zimbabwe

•  Ind -0.23%, Mining +6.87%, $1.55m

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

10.33

-18.00

Nigeria

NGN

163.23

-4.34

Kenya

KES

87.63

-1.75

Mauritius

MUR

30.75

-0.65

Botswana

BWP

8.74

+12.33

Tanzania

TZS

1618.00

-2.04

Uganda

UGX

2593.82

+3.23

Rwanda

RWF

653.67

-3.40

Ghana

GHS

2.15

-11.62

BRVM

XOF

498.44

+0.16

Egypt

EGP

6.98

-8.91

Morocco

MAD

8.44

+.23

Tunisia

TND

1.65

-6.05

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