Market Insight: November 06, 2012


African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

8.73

-7.31

Nigeria

NGN

157.4

+311

Kenya

KES

85.58

-0.59

Mauritius

MUR

30.95

+6.02

Botswana

BWP

7.93

+6.02

Tanzania

TZS

1593.00

-0.69

Uganda

UGX

2575.00

-3.69

Rwanda

RWF

627.80

-3.69

Ghana

GHS

1.88

-12.88

BRVM

XOF

515.46

-1.29

Egypt

EGP

6.11

-1.34

Morocco

MAD

8.68

-0.98

Tunisia

TND

1.58

-5.46

Africa

•  Zimbabwe - Barclays and StanChart given ultimatum by Biti to support t-bill sales
•  Zimbabwe’s Mugabe insists that vote to go ahead in March whether or not new constitution is in place

Nigeria

•  ASI +0.16%, $9.16m
•  Extremely quiet day in Lagos with nothing notable to report

Kenya

•  NSE20 -0.03%, $3.69m
•  A relatively quiet start to the week with a cross in BMBC the main talking point. Equity Bank results due out this morning before the trading session

Botswana

•  DCI +0.18%, $113k

Egypt

•  EGX30 +0.38%, $80m

Mauritius

•  Semdex +0.21%, $1.45m

South Africa

•  Top40 -0.23%, $1.085bn

Zambia

•  LuSE -0.01%, $6k

Zimbabwe

•  Ind -0.10%, Mining +0.71%, $910k
 

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