Market Insight: November 22, 2013


Nigeria

•  ASI +78bps, $43.1m
•  Massive day in Lagos yesterday, Oando (+7.5%, N16.74) and Transcor (+10%) still strongly bid and actively traded. Banks (+72bps) and Consumers (+76bps) in demand from foreign and local investors
•  Lagos State sells record amount of bonds in attempts to revamp creaking infrastructure

Kenya

•  • NSE20 +59bps, $7.6m
•  • All about Safcom as strong local and foreign demand pushed the stock +5.5% to KES 10.60 on chunky volumes

Botswana

•  DCI +18bps, $217k

Egypt

•  EGX30 -62bps, $100m

Mauritius

•  Semdex -7bps, $977k

South Africa

•  Top40 -1.16%, $1.22bn

Zimbabwe

•  Ind +2bps, Mining +83bps, $530k

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

10.15

-16.54

Nigeria

NGN

158.95

-1.76

Kenya

KES

86.30

-0.23

Mauritius

MUR

30.50

+0.16

Botswana

BWP

8.60

-9.69

Tanzania

TZS

1609.00

-1.49

Uganda

UGX

2518.63

+6.32

Rwanda

RWF

672.01

-6.03

Ghana

GHS

2.26

-15.96

BRVM

XOF

490.35

+1.79

Egypt

EGP

6.89

-7.65

Morocco

MAD

8.32

+1.65

Tunisia

TND

1.67

-7.65

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