Market Insight: July 08, 2014


Africa

•  Mauritius Q2 business confidence falls to 79.6 vs 85.3
•  Zimbabwe Railways says in talks for $442m loan

Nigeria

•  ASI -64bps, $27.8mill
•  Crosses in FBNH ($8.94m) and Oando ($4.66m) drove activity yesterday

Kenya

•  NSE20 -35bps, $7.4mill
•  Activity increased thanks to foreign participation (70.2%)

Botswana

•  DCI unch, $299k

Egypt

•  EGX30 -12bps, $78mill

Mauritius

•  Semdex -8bps, $560k

Zimbabwe

•  Ind -19bps, $271k

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

10.78

-2.75

Nigeria

NGN

162.75

-1.51

Kenya

KES

87.95

-1.88

Mauritius

MUR

30.25

-0.66

Botswana

BWP

8.86

-1.62

Tanzania

TZS

1665.00

-4.50

Uganda

UGX

2640.00

-4.28

Rwanda

RWF

680.00

-0.66

Ghana

GHS

3.49

-31.95

BRVM

XOF

485.36

-1.07

Egypt

EGP

7.14

-2.83

Morocco

MAD

8.25

-0.87

Tunisia

TND

1.69

-2.93

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