Market Insight: May 21, 2013


Africa

•  Chamber of Mines of Zimbabwe rejected proposal for state to control mineral production and prices
•  Mauritian Central Bank governor Bheenick given 3rd term as governor
•  Lesotho inflation rate increases to 5.2% in April on higher food and alcohol costs

Nigeria

•  ASI -0.24%, $25.3m
•  Quiet day with crosses spiking up vols, banks and consumers still in demand while selloff in DangCem dragged down the index

Kenya

•  NSE20 -0.37%, $1.5m
•  ATS systems issues meant it was a nothing day in Nairobi

Botswana

•  DCI +0.03%, $1.55m

Egypt

•  EGX30 -0.35%, $39m

Mauritius

•  Semdex -0.28%, $569k

South Africa

•  Top40 -0.62%, $1.7bn

Zambia

•  LuSE unch, $9.9k

Zimbabwe

•  Ind +0.05%, Mining -1.51%, $590k

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

9.46

-10.41

Nigeria

NGN

158.25

-1.33

Kenya

KES

83.85

+2.68

Mauritius

MUR

31.25

-2.24

Botswana

BWP

8.37

+7.54

Tanzania

TZS

1631.00

-2.82

Uganda

UGX

2598.00

+3.07

Rwanda

RWF

639.99

-1.33

Ghana

GHS

1.99

-4.37

BRVM

XOF

512.60

-2.39

Egypt

EGP

6.98

-8.86

Morocco

MAD

8.63

-2.01

Tunisia

TND

1.66

-6.21

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