Market Insight: March 05, 2013


Africa

•  Barclays, Standard Chartered to submit Zimbabwe stake sale plans
•  Terkper faces Ghana budge t gap as Mahama plans spending
•  Angola to start cargo rail line from Luanda port this month
•  Five dead as Egypt forces clash with Port Said protesters

Nigeria

•  ASI -0.71%, 26.86mill
•  Market heavyweight DangCem (-2.02%) dragged the market lower
•  Banks (-0.71%) and Consumers (-0.24%) ended the day lower

Kenya

•  The market was closed for elections, and will be closed today as well

Botswana

•  DCI unch, $131k

Egypt

•  EGX30 -230bps, $70mill

Mauritius

•  Semdex +6bps, $3.1mill

South Africa

•  Top40 -80bps, $1.69bn

Zambia

•  LuSE +34bps, $61k

Zimbabwe

•  Ind +158bps, mining unch, $2.05mill

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

9.09

-6.83

Nigeria

NGN

157.38

-0.78

Kenya

KES

86.00

+0.12

Mauritius

MUR

30.85

-0.97

Botswana

BWP

8.15

+4.77

Tanzania

TZS

1622.00

-2.28

Uganda

UGX

2653.00

+0.93

Rwanda

RWF

634.19

-0.43

Ghana

GHS

1.89

+0.30

BRVM

XOF

506.52

-1.44

Egypt

EGP

6.74

-5.62

Morocco

MAD

8.55

-1.06

Tunisia

TND

1.58

-2.03

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