Market Insight: January 15, 2014


Nigeria

•  ASI -384bps, $20.8mill
•  Banks (-4.46%) and Consumers (-0.55%) continued to take strain

Kenya

•  NSE20 +109bps, $5.7mill
•  A slightly better day with some foreign interest returning to the likes of Safcom
•  The Monetary Policy Committee kept the benchmark rate at 8.5%

Botswana

•  Semdex -34bps, $2.5mill

Zimbabwe

•  Ind +40bps, $397k

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

11.48

+0.78

Nigeria

NGN

183.25

+0.11

Kenya

KES

91.35

-0.82

Mauritius

MUR

32.30

-1.70

Botswana

BWP

9.58

-0.28

Tanzania

TZS

1736.75

-0.22

Uganda

UGX

2890.00

-4.12

Rwanda

RWF

690.50

-0.10

Ghana

GHS

3.24

-0.92

BRVM

XOF

558.00

-2.99

Egypt

EGP

7.15

+0.01

Morocco

MAD

9.27

-2.10

Tunisia

TND

1.89

-1.47

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