Market Insight: January 16, 2014


Nigeria

•  ASI +41bps, $34.9m
•  Chunky crosses in Flourmills, Nestle, Oando and ETI driving volumes while banks (+63bps) and consumers (+95bps) firm

Kenya

•  NSE20 +71bps, $8.6m
•  Foreign investors turned net buyers pushing the index higher. KCB and EqBnk both under pressure from local sellers

Botswana

•  DCI +18bps, $261k

Egypt

•  EGX30 +3bps, $116m

Mauritius

•  Semdex +12bps, $750k

South Africa

•  Top40 +1.10%, $1.16bn

Zimbabwe

•  Ind -41bps, Mining -8.58%, $1.49m

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

10.89

-3.69

Nigeria

NGN

159.37

+0.58

Kenya

KES

85.88

+0.49

Mauritius

MUR

30.25

-0.66

Botswana

BWP

8.95

-2.27

Tanzania

TZS

1617.00

-1.67

Uganda

UGX

2511.67

+0.61

Rwanda

RWF

674.87

+0.17

Ghana

GHS

2.40

-1.04

BRVM

XOF

485.42

-1.08

Egypt

EGP

6.96

-0.22

Morocco

MAD

8.25

-0.83

Tunisia

TND

1.65

-0.75

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