Market Insight: November 13, 2012


African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

8.73

-7.34

Nigeria

NGN

157.60

+2.98

Kenya

KES

85.50

-0.50

Mauritius

MUR

31.05

-5.48

Botswana

BWP

7.92

+5.94

Tanzania

TZS

1592.00

-0.63

Uganda

UGX

2603.00

-4.73

Rwanda

RWF

628.42

-3.86

Ghana

GHS

1.88

-12.72

BRVM

XOF

517.94

-1.77

Egypt

EGP

6.09

-1.11

Morocco

MAD

8.72

-1.44

Tunisia

TND

1.59

-5.93

 

 

 

 

Africa

•  South Africa and Namibia say diamond sanctions against Zimbabwe should end
•  Tanzania president Kikwete says inflation is a “major challenge” to economy
•  Bank of Ghana to release key interest rate tomorrow 14 Nov, expectation for unchanged at 15%

Nigeria

•  ASI -0.42%, $10.21m
•  Yet another extremely slow day in Lagos with NB (+1.26%) the only active name

Kenya

•  NSE20 -0.18%, $3.69m
•  Safcom (unch, KES4.80) the only active stock on the day

Botswana

•  DCI +0.07bps, $121k

Egypt

•  EGX30 +0.51%, $51m

Mauritius

•  Semdex -0.33%, $1.28m

South Africa

•  No data available

Zambia

•  LuSE +0.05%, $9k

Zimbabwe

•  Ind -0.04%, Mining +1.51%, $258k
 

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