Market Insight: July 29, 2013


Africa

•  Central African Republic plans emergency economic revival
•  Ghana lures bids for $2.2bn as demand doubles debts offered
•  Mugabe says Zimbabwe will not collapse under weight of sanctions
•  Mugabe warns Tsvangirai over announcing Zimbabwe election result

Nigeria

•  ASI -0.38%, $16.02mill
•  Very quiet day last Friday with not much on the go

Kenya

•  NSE20 +0.11%, $2.4mill
•  Quiet session last Friday

Botswana

•  DCI +14bps, $71k

Egypt

•  EGX30 -66bps, $22mill

Mauritius

•  Semdex +2bps, $571k

South Africa

•  Top40 -60bps, $1.4bn

Zambia

•  LuSE +8bps, $256k

Zimbabwe

•  Ind +135bps, mining -118bps, $610k

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

9.74

-13.02

Nigeria

NGN

160.50

-2.71

Kenya

KES

84.30

-2.14

Mauritius

MUR

30.80

-0.81

Botswana

BWP

8.47

+8.84

Tanzania

TZS

1623.00

-2.34

Uganda

UGX

2590.00

+3.39

Rwanda

RWF

647.81

-3.39

Ghana

GHS

2.06

-7.77

BRVM

XOF

496.27

+0.59

Egypt

EGP

7.00

-9.14

Morocco

MAD

8.41

+0.54

Tunisia

TND

1.64

-6.05

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