Market Insight: December 23, 2014


Africa

•  Botswana Q3economic growth 5.4% on annual basis vs 4.5% in Q2
•  Mauritius October trade gap7.32bn Rupees vs 6.16bn Rupees in September

Nigeria

•  ASI +15bps, $29.2mill
•  A solid start to the week thanks to crosses in Tanscorp ($7.28m)
•  The rally in Banking stocks (+6.18%) and Consumers (+3.15%) continued

Kenya

•  NSE20 unch, $21.6mill
•  Locals dominated proceedings with a large cross in SCAN

Botswana

•  DCI unch, $2.99mill

Mauritius

•  Semdex +15bps, $740k

Zimbabwe

•  Closed yesterday l

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

11.57

-9.37

Nigeria

NGN

184.78

-13.25

Kenya

KES

90.43

-4.56

Mauritius

MUR

31.65

-5.06

Botswana

BWP

9.51

-8.01

Tanzania

TZS

1695.00

-6.11

Uganda

UGX

2760.00

-8.44

Rwanda

RWF

690.50

-2.10

Ghana

GHS

3.21

-26.13

BRVM

XOF

537.82

-10.74

Egypt

EGP

7.15

-2.83

Morocco

MAD

8.97

-8.78

Tunisia

TND

1.86

-11.81

contacts
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  • South Africa +27 11 268 5833