Market Insight: July 24, 2014


Africa

•  Ugandan economy expanded by 4.7% in fiscal Q3 vs 4.8% in previous year

Nigeria

•  ASI -28bps, $19.2m
•  Foreign participation remains low. Zenith H1 results out before the session

Kenya

•  NSE20 +43bps, $7.7m
•  Low foreign participation with most of focus on Safcom and EqBnk
•  NSE to list on NSE with total of 194m shares

Botswana

•  DCI +11bps, $9k

Egypt

•  Closed yesterday

Mauritius

•  Semdex +11bps, $1.4m

Zimbabwe

•  Ind -12bps, $894k

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

10.52

-0.30

Nigeria

NGN

161.98

-104

Kenya

KES

87.88

-1.79

Mauritius

MUR

30.45

-1.31

Botswana

BWP

8.81

+0.74

Tanzania

TZS

1662.00

-4.33

Uganda

UGX

2632.00

-4.01

Rwanda

RWF

689.50

-1.96

Ghana

GHS

3.58

-33.66

BRVM

XOF

490.08

-2.02

Egypt

EGP

7.15

-2.86

Morocco

MAD

8.32

-1.65

Tunisia

TND

1.72

-4.52

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