• Botswana to post budget surplus as state keeps spending in check
• Nampak, SA packaging company, plans to double earnings from African business throughout 2012
• ASI -8bps, $9.65mill. Some activity in Guinness (-2.17%) while Firstbank closed limit up again
• Sanusi says bank under no pressure to devalue naira
• Security forces arrest militant Islamist spokesman Qaqa
• NSE20 -20bps, $1.5mill.
• As expected, Central Bank keeps key lending rate unch at 18% to support shilling and ensure inflation rate keeps dropping
• DCI -2bps, $164k
• EGX30 +86bps, $76mill
• Market is closed
• Top40 +1.13%, $1.83bn
• LuSE -29bps, $769k
• Ind +6bps, Mining -2.39%, $1.4mill