Market Insight: June 05, 2014


Africa

•  Lafarge combination of African units set to rival Dangote Cement
•  Uganda's central bank lowered the policy rate to 11%

Nigeria

•  ASI +55bps, $40.7mmill
•  Another active day with banks once again dominating proceedings
•  Banks managed to bounce after two days of profit taking with the index gaining +0.68%

Kenya

•  NSE20 -21bps, $9.5mill
•  Activity slowed down on the back of a fall in foreign participation

Botswana

•  DCI -19bps, $6.6mill

Egypt

•  EGX30 +192bps, $140mill

Mauritius

•  Semdex +33bps, $8.1mill

Zimbabwe

•  Ind +30bps, $560k

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

10.78

-2.72

Nigeria

NGN

162.50

-1.35

Kenya

KES

87.43

-1.29

Mauritius

MUR

30.30

-0.83

Botswana

BWP

8.86

-1.36

Tanzania

TZS

1652.50

-4.36

Uganda

UGX

2570.00

-1.67

Rwanda

RWF

684.76

-1.28

Ghana

GHS

3.00

-20.97

BRVM

XOF

484.86

-0.96

Egypt

EGP

7.15

-2.83

Morocco

MAD

8.24

-0.74

Tunisia

TND

1.63

+0.79

 
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