Market Insight: November 28, 2012


African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

8.82
-8.37

Nigeria

NGN

157.50
+3.05

Kenya

KES

86.00
-1.08

Mauritius

MUR

30.90
-5.02

Botswana

BWP

7.96
+6.57

Tanzania

TZS

1610.00
-1.74

Uganda

UGX

2687.00
-7.70

Rwanda

RWF

629.44
-4.02

Ghana

GHS

1.90
-13.78

BRVM

XOF

509.56
-0.13

Egypt

EGP

6.10
-1.20

Morocco

MAD

8.60
-0.10

Tunisia

TND

1.57
-4.83

 

 

 

 

Africa

•  Zambia to introduce fourth mobile operator by mid-2013
•  Zambia’s president Sata says high borrowing costs hurt growth

Nigeria

•  ASI -0.34%, $12.97mill
•  Dire volumes continue with banking stocks taking strain yesterday
•  Sanusi says Nigerian capital market needs the real economy to grow

Kenya

•  NSE20 -0.60%, $6.60mill
•  Another active day with foreigners dominating activity once again
•  Safcom fell 3.8% after the CCK’s decision to cut mobile termination rates

Botswana

•  DCI -39bps, $2.7mill

Egypt

•  EGX30 +2bps, $35mill

Mauritius

•  Semdex -8bps, $1.2mill

South Africa

•  Top40 +15bps, $1.13bn

Zambia

•  LuSE unch, $123k

Zimbabwe

•  Ind -52bps, mining +57bps, $890k
 

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