• Zimbabwe unwilling to have extended talks on Zimplats stake
• Chevron to invest $1.9bn in its Lianzi oil field in Congo Republic
• Uganda inflation slows to 25.4% adding to calls for rate cut
• ASI -16bps, $16.7mill
• Sanusi says Jan surge in inflation doesn’t mean higher rates as yet
• NSE20 +90bps, $3.9mill. Active and strong day in Nairobi to close the month. KNCB +1.23% at KES20.50 ahead of todays results – due out mid session
• KenGen seeks $745mill to fund geothermal well drilling
• Centum plannings $723mill investment in real estate project in Nairobi
• Longhorn Publishers plans to list on NSE before end of March 2012
• DCI unch, $58k
• EGX30 +2.39%, $125mill
• Semdex -21bps, $914k
• Top40 +20bps, $1.88bn
• LuSE +36bps, $61k
• Ind -68bps, Mining unch, $379k