• Botswana government to make decision re option to increase stake in De Beers by end of March 2012
• ASI -30bps, $12.06mill. Quiet day in Lagos
• UBA announces profit warning (see attached) and trades down 0.5% (N1.99) in large vol
• NSE20 unch, $3.1mill. Safcom accounting for almost half the days vols with the name closing up +1.56% at kes3.25 after some chunky crosses went through late in the session
• Kenya proposes constructing oil refinery in north in order to export oil from South Sudan
• DCI -9bps, $88k
• EGX30 +2.73%, $83mill
• Semdex +24bps, $4.1mill. Cross in Vivo Energy (SHELL MP) accounting for most of the days activity
• Top40 +87bps, $1.67bn
• LuSE -96bps, $13k
• Ind +1.05%, Mining +1.59%, $3.8mill. 2 special bargain trades in Delta and Econet boosting vols