Market Insight: February 19, 2014


Nigeria

•  ASI +2bps, $26.4m
•  Not much conviction either way in the market although banks (+13bps) finding some stability

Kenya

•  NSE20 -20bps, $8.7m
•  Strong local participation continues to drive the market
•  Lafarge’s Kenyan unit says dispute with government hampering plans to double production capacity

Botswana

•  DCI -49bps, $13k

Egypt

•  EGX30 +1.90%, $158m

Mauritius

•  Semdex +13bps, $7.4m

South Africa

•  Top40 +23bps, $1.24bn

Zimbabwe

•  Ind -8bps, Mining unch, $590k

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

10.88

-3.62

Nigeria

NGN

164.39

-2.49

Kenya

KES

86.25

+0.06

Mauritius

MUR

30.21

-0.53

Botswana

BWP

8.90

-2.06

Tanzania

TZS

1625.00

-2.15

Uganda

UGX

2443.12

+3.43

Rwanda

RWF

680.50

-0.66

Ghana

GHS

2.52

-6.04

BRVM

XOF

479.62

+0.09

Egypt

EGP

6.96

-0.19

Morocco

MAD

8.16

+0.13

Tunisia

TND

1.57

+4.26

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