Market Insight: Januray 16, 2013


Africa

•  Zimbabwe’s inflation slows to 2.91% in December vs 2.99% in November
•  Zimbabwean party heads to meet in January over constitution deadlock
•  PBC Ghana shuns bank loans to turn to Cocoa Board cash

Nigeria

•  ASI +1.29%, $31.67mill
•  The Bank10 Index gained 2.95% yesterday
•  The Naira fell to a week-low on surge in Dollar demand

Kenya

•  NSE20 +1.38%, $6.1mill
•  KenGen plans to upgrade Kindaruma hydropower plant

Botswana

•  DCI +26bps, $353k

Egypt

•  EGX30 -143bps, $61mill

Mauritius

•  Semdex +63bps, $3.65mill

South Africa

•  Top40 -46bps, $2.20bn

Zambia

•  LuSE -25bps, $371k

Zimbabwe

•  Ind +41bps, mining unch, $1.8mill

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