Market Insight: January 08, 2013


Africa

•  Ghana may sell Eurobond in April as Cedi debt plans jump 35%
•  Tanzania Ports Authority opens tender for electronic pay system

Nigeria

•  ASI +0.72%, $39.6mill
•  A large cross of 2m Nestle boosted activity yesterday
•  Banks (-1.82%) continued to come under pressure

Kenya

•  NSE20 +1.06%, $3.3mill
•  Not much on the go yesterday

Botswana

•  DCI +11bps, $101k

Egypt

•  Closed yesterday

Mauritius

•  Semdex +12bps, $1.89mill

South Africa

•  Top40 -8bps, $949mill

Zimbabwe

•  Ind +53bps, mining unch, $560k

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

10.61

-1.17

Nigeria

NGN

159.35

+0.60

Kenya

KES

87.00

-0.80

Mauritius

MUR

30.15

-0.33

Botswana

BWP

8.83

-0.70

Tanzania

TZS

1610.00

-1.24

Uganda

UGX

2538.48

-0.45

Rwanda

RWF

680.50

-0.66

Ghana

GHS

2.35

+1.00

BRVM

XOF

485.25

-1.02

Egypt

EGP

6.95

-0.15

Morocco

MAD

8.25

-0.81

Tunisia

TND

1.65

-0.63

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