Market Insight: June 17, 2014


Africa

•  Botswana benchmark rate unchanged at 7.5%
•  Malawi inflation slows to 22.6% in May (vs 23.9% in April)

Nigeria

•  ASI -16bps, $12.2m
•  Very lethargic day in Lagos to start the week with the only real action in GTB

Kenya

•  NSE20 -1.00%, $3.8m
•  Extremely quiet day with foreign investors absent

Botswana

•  DCI -5bps, $446k

Egypt

•  EGX30 -1.53%, $128m

Mauritius

•  Semdex -4bps, $3.3m

Zimbabwe

•  Ind +17bps, $970k

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

10.73

-2.22

Nigeria

NGN

162.65

-1.44

Kenya

KES

88.00

-1.93

Mauritius

MUR

30.45

-1.31

Botswana

BWP

8.87

+1.46

Tanzania

TZS

1685

-5.64

Uganda

UGX

2573

-1.79

Rwanda

RWF

680.00

-0.59

Ghana

GHS

3.14

-24.24

BRVM

XOF

484.46

-1.29

Egypt

EGP

7.15

-2.83

Morocco

MAD

8.27

-1.03

Tunisia

TND

1.65

-0.56

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