Market Insight: February 26, 2013


Africa

•  ABSA investors back $2.1bn Barclays Africa acquisition
•  Egypt lays out economic plan seeking IMF cash and exit from crisis

Nigeria

•  ASI -0.25%, $25.19m
•  FBNH dominating the daily turnover as large blocks trade in the market
•  Nedbank plans to exercise its right to take 20% stake in ETI in November

Kenya

•  NSE20 -0.32%, $13.4m
•  A large cross in EABL spiked volumes

Botswana

•  DCI +0.28%, $717k

Egypt

•  EGX30 -0.57%, $39m

Mauritius

•  Semdex -0.22%, $432k

South Africa

•  Top40 +0.31%, $1.25bn

Zambia

•  LuSE unch, $67k

Zimbabwe

•  Ind -0.42%, Mining unch, $480k

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

8.81

-3.98

Nigeria

NGN

157.40

-0.79

Kenya

KES

87.15

-1.20

Mauritius

MUR

30.80

-0.81

Botswana

BWP

7.98

+2.52

Tanzania

TZS

1633.00

-2.94

Uganda

UGX

2647.00

+1.16

Rwanda

RWF

633.87

-0.38

Ghana

GHS

1.91

-0.55

BRVM

XOF

496.53

+0.57

Egypt

EGP

6.73

-5.55

Morocco

MAD

8.42

+0.57

Tunisia

TND

1.56

-0.72

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