Market Insight: June 08, 2012


Africa

•  Woolworths Holdings aims to triple sales growth in Africa from 3% to 10% within next 7 years with 2 stores in Nigeria and 1 in Mauritius recently opened
•  Angolan inflation rate declines to 10.5% in May (down from 10.9%)

Nigeria

•  ASI -1.25%, $11.53mill
•  MTN spending $1.3bn to upgrade Nigerian network to expand capacity and improve quality of services

Kenya

•  NSE20 +45bps, $2.4mill
•  Kenya Airways raises min subscription of KES14.5bn in rights offer

Botswana

•  DCI unch, $106k

Egypt

•  EGX30 -11bps, $20mill

Mauritius

•  Semdex -6bps, $934k

South Africa

•  Top40 +91bps, $2.06bn

Zambia

•  LuSE -45bps, $53k

Zimbabwe

•  Ind -29bps, Mining unch, $4.4mill
 

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