Market Insight: November 04, 2013


Africa

•  Tunisia’s political parties fail to reach agreement on new Premier

Nigeria

•  ASI +38bps, $19.2m
•  Banks (+39bps) and Consumers (+53bps) still very much in demand from aggressive buyers

Kenya

•  NSE20-6bps, $7m
•  Marginal fall in the NSE20 but foreign buying in blue chips still very much a theme
•  Equity Bank results due out this morning

Botswana

•  DCI +31bps, $4.62m

Egypt

•  Closed on Friday

Mauritius

•  Closed on Friday

South Africa

•  Top40 +17bps, $1.2bn

Zimbabwe

•  Ind +6bps, Mining -4.5%, $830k

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

10.17

-16.73

Nigeria

NGN

158.73

-1.63

Kenya

KES

85.55

+0.64

Mauritius

MUR

30.10

+1.49

Botswana

BWP

8.62

+10.78

Tanzania

TZS

1606.00

-1.31

Uganda

UGX

2524.50

+6.07

Rwanda

RWF

672.04

-6.04

Ghana

GHS

2.35

-14.79

BRVM

XOF

489.07

+2.09

Egypt

EGP

6.88

-7.59

Morocco

MAD

8.29

+1.99

Tunisia

TND

1.64

-5.88

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