Market Insight: March 15, 2013


Africa

•  CNPC to buy stake in Eni Mozambique assets for $4.2bn
•  Egypt’s Brotherhood rejects UN paper on violence against women

Nigeria

•  ASI -0.45%, $31.17mill
•  Chunky crosses in a number of blue chips helped increase activity yesterday
•  Profit taking in banking stocks with the Bank10 Index falling 0.63%

Kenya

•  NSE20 -1.62%, $8.3mill
•  Broad based profit taking evident once again yesterday

Botswana

•  DCI +2bps, $10k

Egypt

•  EGX30 -208bps, $54mill

Mauritius

•  Semdex +70bps, $1.68mill

South Africa

•  Top40 +12bps, $1.87bn

Zambia

•  LuSE -39bps, $248k

Zimbabwe

•  Ind -1.22bps, mining -1.31bps, $2.12mill

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

9.19

-7.80

Nigeria

NGN

158.90

-1.73

Kenya

KES

85.25

+1.00

Mauritius

MUR

31.05

-1.61

Botswana

BWP

8.24

+5.94

Tanzania

TZS

1624.00

-2.40

Uganda

UGX

2643.00

+1.31

Rwanda

RWF

634.75

-0.52

Ghana

GHS

1.92

-1.04

BRVM

XOF

508.93

-1.90

Egypt

EGP

6.77

-6.00

Morocco

MAD

8.58

-1.42

Tunisia

TND

1.58

-1.96

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