Market Insight: February 21, 2013


Africa

•  Namibian Central Bank keeps benchmark rate unchanged at 5.5%
•  Uganda coffee shipments rise first time in three months on weather
•  Zambia Government cancels license for Chinese owned min

Nigeria

•  ASI +1.12%, $27.2mill
•  Nestle posted FY 2012 results with PAT increasing 28.13%
•  Naira heads to highest level in a week on investor inflows

Kenya

•  NSE20 -1.06%, $9.3mill
•  NIC Bank released FY 2012 results which saw EPS increase 8.2%

Botswana

•  DCI +13bps, $98k

Egypt

•  EGX30 -24bps, $47mill

Mauritius

•  Semdex +45bps, $2.9mill

South Africa

•  Top40 -84bps, $1.44bn

Zambia

•  LuSE -4bps, $507k

Zimbabwe

•  Ind +2.15bps, mining unch, $1.23mill

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

8.87

-4.48

Nigeria

NGN

157.33

-0.75

Kenya

KES

87.58

-1.69

Mauritius

MUR

30.65

-0.33

Botswana

BWP

8.01

+2.93

Tanzania

TZS

1622.00

-2.28

Uganda

UGX

2637.00

+0.18

Rwanda

RWF

633.53

-0.33

Ghana

GHS

1.90

unch

BRVM

XOF

492.56

+1.42

Egypt

EGP

6.73

-5.49

Morocco

MAD

8.36

+1.22

Tunisia

TND

1.55

-0.25

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