Market Insight: June 20, 2012


African Currencies as at GMT 15:30

 
Country
Notation
Currency
 
South Africa
ZAR
8.209
 
Nigeria
NGN
162.12
 
Kenya
KES
84.10
 
Mauritius
MUR
30.75
 
Botswana
BWP
7.6805
 
Tanzania
TZS
1583
 
Uganda
UGX
2487.5
 
Rwanda
RWF
609.708
 
Ghana
GHS
1.9275
 
BRVM
XOF
519.4751
 
Egypt
EGP
6.0502
 
Moroccan
MAD
8.734
 
Tunisia
TND
1.5826

Africa

•  Malawi’s inflation rate rose to 17.3% in May, highest in 6 years
•  Zimbabwe to set cotton price on growers, merchant dispute
•  Egypt caught in a maze as politics spur currency risk

Nigeria

•  ASI +26bps, $9.32m
•  Inflation for May fell to 12.7%

Kenya

•  NSE20 -0.52bps, $4.68mill
•  Centum looks to property after profit drops by half
•  Donor aid to jump 30% to $2.7bn in the next fiscal year

Botswana

•  DCI +3bps, $108k

Egypt

•  EGX 30 -423bps, $40m

Mauritius

•  Semdex +10bps, $1.8m

South Africa

•  Top40 +84bps, $1.56bn

Zambia

•  LuSE -97bps, $65k

Zimbabwe

•  Ind -8bps, Mining -104bps, $1.3m
 

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