Market Insight: February 15, 2012


Africa

•  Botswana’s Central Bank keeps benchmark interest rate at 9.5%
•  Mozambique inflation rate falls to 5.12% in January
•  Mauritian banks say European crisis to curb credit demand
•  Egyptian Minister says U.S. tried to use NGOs to control country’s future

Nigeria

•  ASI +36bps, $16.36m
•  Naira heads to three-month high as Nigeria probes fuel importers
•  A blast killed at least one in northern city of Kaduna

Kenya

•  NSE 20 -40bps, $$1.3m
•  Kenya sees Shilling strengthening further as inflation slows

Botswana

•  DCI unch, $43k

Egypt

•  EGX30 -65%, $143mill

Ghana

•  $88k

Mauritius

•  Semdex -55bps, $989k

South Africa

•  Top40 -29bps, $1.78bn

Zambia

•  LuSE -8bps, $1.20m

Zimbabwe

•  Ind +79bps, Mining unch, $1.6mill
 

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