Market Insight: February 21, 2014


Nigeria

•  ASI -1.47%, $30.3m
•  Suspension of CBN Governor Sanusi hit the banks hard (-4.46%), contagion spread to the consumers (-1.79%)

Kenya

•  NSE20 +43bps, $11.6m
•  Foreign crosses in Safcom, EqBnk and KNCB the main activity, outside of this local investors still dominating

Botswana

•  DCI -40bps, $5k

Egypt

•  EGX30 +66bps, $172m

Mauritius

•  Semdex -5bps, $2.61m

South Africa

•  Top40 -58bps, $1.64bn

Zimbabwe

•  Ind +68bps, mining unch, $3.01m

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

11.03

-4.94

Nigeria

NGN

164.35

-2.46

Kenya

KES

86.07

+0.26

Mauritius

MUR

30.05

unch

Botswana

BWP

9.00

-2.80

Tanzania

TZS

1626.00

-2.21

Uganda

UGX

2451.15

+3.09

Rwanda

RWF

681.51

-0.81

Ghana

GHS

2.53

-6.13

BRVM

XOF

481.21

+0.22

Egypt

EGP

6.95

-0.17

Morocco

MAD

8.18

+0.08

Tunisia

TND

1.58

+3.89

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