Market Insight: June 01, 2012


Africa

•  East African nations plan at least $800m of bond sales
•  Zambia’s Central Bank left interest rates unchanged at 9%
•  Uganda’s inflation rate fell for a third month to 18.6%

Nigeria

•  ASI -47bps, $14.5mill
•  The Naira had its worst month last month this year against the USD

Kenya

•  NSE20 +68bps, $5.74mill
•  Decent amount of activity yesterday with foreigners dominating both sides of Safcom

Botswana

•  DCI unch, $189k

Egypt

•  EGX30 +1bps, $64mill

Mauritius

•  Semdex -31bps, $13mill

South Africa

•  Top40 +48bps, $2.21bn

Zambia

•  LuSE +19bps, $24k

Zimbabwe

•  Ind -21bps, Mining +98bps, $1.5mill
 

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