Market Insight: May 03, 2013


Africa

•  Unilever Ghana sees 10% sales growth on Lipton Tea Exports
•  South Sudan approves mortgage lender amid housing shortage
•  Burundi ranks among top 10 in improving business environment

Nigeria

•  ASI +3.18%, $23.40mill
•  Zenith drove activity thanks to a large cross of 30m shares early on
•  First Bank released Q1 2013 numbers yesterday with the name gaining 3.11%

Kenya

•  NSE20 +0.48%, $10.6mill
•  Kenya’s 2013/ 14 budget estimate of 1.06T Shillings in Parliament

Botswana

•  DCI +8bps, $891k

Egypt

•  EGX30 +154bps, $39mill

Mauritius

•  Semdex +42bps, $1.34m

South Africa

•  Top40 -42bps, $1.81bn

Zambia

•  LuSE -106bps, $241k

Zimbabwe

•  Ind -33bps, mining -1224bps, $670k

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

8.96

-5.52

Nigeria

NGN

158.20

-1.30

Kenya

KES

83.75

+2.81

Mauritius

MUR

30.85

-0.97

Botswana

BWP

8.06

+3.59

Tanzania

TZS

1630.18

-2.77

Uganda

UGX

2560.00

+4.60

Rwanda

RWF

628.00

+0.55

Ghana

GHS

1.97

-3.55

BRVM

XOF

504.53

-1.09

Egypt

EGP

6.94

-8.34

Morocco

MAD

8.52

+0.73

Tunisia

TND

1.61

-4.13

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