Market Insight: December 17, 2012


Africa

•  Ghana may sell Eurobonds worth $750mill to refinance earlier debt
•  Botswana inflation rises to 7.4% in November, up from 7.1% in Oct
•  Egypt began voting on new constitution over the weekend

Nigeria

•  ASI +0.08%, $13.08m

Kenya

•  NSE20 +0.61%, $2.8m
•  Quiet day in Kenya as foreign participants largely absent

Botswana

•  DCI +0.04%, $1.44m

Egypt

•  EGX30 closed on Friday

Mauritius

•  Semdex -0.25%, $1.1m

South Africa

•  Top40 -0.03%, $1.6bn

Zambia

•  LuSE +0.56%, $38k

Zimbabwe

•  Ind +0.14%, Mining unch, $1.17m

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

8.79
-7.92

Nigeria

NGN

157.42
+3.10

Kenya

KES

85.95
-1.02

Mauritius

MUR

31.00
-5.32

Botswana

BWP

7.93
+6.23

Tanzania

TZS

1601.50
-1.22

Uganda

UGX

2690.00
-7.81

Rwanda

RWF

629.60
-4.04

Ghana

GHS

1.90
-14.09

BRVM

XOF

507.45
-0.27

Egypt

EGP

6.11
-1.33

Morocco

MAD

8.57
-0.18

Tunisia

TND

1.57
-4.67

 

 

 

 

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