Market Insight: November 09, 2012


African Currencies

 
Country
Notation
Currency
YTD %
 
South Africa
ZAR
8.6381
-6.36
 
Nigeria
NGN
157.15
+3.28
 
Kenya
KES
85.20
-0.15
 
Mauritius
MUR
31.05
-5.48
 
Botswana
BWP
7.8340
+4.82
 
Tanzania
TZS
1575.00
+0.44
 
Uganda
UGX
2595.00
-4.43
 
Rwanda
RWF
624.8644
-3.32
 
Ghana
GHS
1.8935
-13.41
 
BRVM
XOF
508.6052
+0.04
 
Egypt
EGP
6.0971
-1.07
 
Morocco
MAD
8.5896
+0.03
 
Tunisia
TND
1.5674
-4.42

Africa

•  Zimbabwe to force banks to buy debt after bill auction fails
•  Africa mining output falls most in five months on strikes
•  Egypt debt rally stumbling on constitution standoff

Nigeria

•  • ASI +0.35%, $18.65mill
•  • Guinness released Q1 numbers which saw PAT fall to N1.807bn

Kenya

•  NSE20 +0.67%, $3.80mill
•  Rather quiet day yesterday with foreigners noticeably cautious
•  Safcom released H1 2013 results which saw PAT increase 93.1%

Botswana

•  DCI +21bps, $377k

Egypt

•  EGX30 +48bps, $57mill

Mauritius

•  Semdex -1bps, $1.2mill

South Africa

•  Top40 -33bps, $1.27bn

Zambia

•  LuSE -293bps, $40k

Zimbabwe

•  Ind --28bps, mining -97bps, $500k
 

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