Market Insight: July 16, 2013


Africa

•  Zambia may end halt at First Quantum mine project
•  Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood calls protest as Cabinet shaped
•  Zimbabwe’s security forces poll “shoddy” monitoring group says

Nigeria

•  ASI +0.90%, $15.40mill
•  A cross in Unilever (1.98m) was the only real excitement on an otherwise dull day

Kenya

•  NSE20 +0.55%, $4.3mill
•  EABL and Safcom drove activity on a very slow day

Botswana

•  Closed

Egypt

•  EGX30 +9bps, $41mill

Mauritius

•  Semdex -3bps, $738k

South Africa

•  Top40 +1bps, $1.09bn

Zambia

•  LuSE +41bps, $110k

Zimbabwe

•  Ind +41bps, mining +323bps, $1.4mill

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

9.90

-14.42

Nigeria

NGN

161.44

-3.28

Kenya

KES

87.00

-1.03

Mauritius

MUR

31.15

-1.93

Botswana

BWP

8.57

+10.12

Tanzania

TZS

1615.00

-1.86

Uganda

UGX

2590.25

+3.38

Rwanda

RWF

655.44

-3.66

Ghana

GHS

2.05

-7.10

BRVM

XOF

505.07

-1.14

Egypt

EGP

7.00

-9.12

Morocco

MAD

8.53

-0.87

Tunisia

TND

1.66

-6.64

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