Market Insight: December 02, 2013


Africa

•  Bank of Zambia keeps benchmark interest rate at 9.75%
•  Zimbabwe lifts lending rate cap for Barclays, Standard Chartered
•  Ghana to increase gasoline price 3.3% to 2.19 Cedi a litre

Nigeria

•  ASI -0.02%, $17.8mill
•  Slow end to the week last Friday with not much to talk about

Kenya

•  NSE20 -0.71%, $3.9mill
•  Foreigners were all but absent from the market last Friday
•  Kenya November inflation rose 7.4% from a year ago

Botswana

•  DCI +4bps, $8k

Egypt

•  Closed

Mauritius

•  Semdex -8bps, $834k

South Africa

•  Top40 -29bps, $1.05bn

Zimbabwe

•  Ind -102bps, mining unch, $1.32mill

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

10.17

-16.71

Nigeria

NGN

158.30

-1.36

Kenya

KES

86.55

-0.52

Mauritius

MUR

30.25

+0.99

Botswana

BWP

8.63

-9.77

Tanzania

TZS

1614.00

-1.80

Uganda

UGX

2525.50

+6.03

Rwanda

RWF

674.45

-6.37

Ghana

GHS

2.27

-16.29

BRVM

XOF

485.00

+2.96

Egypt

EGP

6.88

-7.55

Morocco

MAD

8.25

+2.60

Tunisia

TND

1.66

-7.02

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