Market Insight: December 09, 2013


Africa

•  Tanzania’s consumer inflation for November eases to 6.2%
•  Mauritius headline inflation rises to 3.5% in October

Nigeria

•  ASI -33bps, $19.9m
•  Generally slow day with a couple of crosses spiking up turnover. Banks marginally soft while consumers (-99bps) came under pressure

Kenya

•  NSE20 -57bps, $5.1m
•  Foreigners net sellers on a rather quiet day

Botswana

•  DCI unch, $7k

Egypt

•  Closed

Mauritius

•  Semdex -7bps, $1.3m

South Africa

•  Top40 +80bps, 1.35bn

Zimbabwe

•  Ind -78bps, Mining unch, $1.99m

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

10.31

-17.92

Nigeria

NGN

158.37

-1.40

Kenya

KES

86.50

-0.46

Mauritius

MUR

30.35

+0.66

Botswana

BWP

8.68

-10.23

Tanzania

TZS

1605.00

-1.25

Uganda

UGX

2524.19

+6.08

Rwanda

RWF

673.50

-6.24

Ghana

GHS

2.29

-17.12

BRVM

XOF

482.22

+3.52

Egypt

EGP

6.88

-7.62

Morocco

MAD

8.21

+3.05

Tunisia

TND

1.66

-6.64

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