Market Insight: October 01, 2012


African Currencies

 

PLEASE REMEMBER THAT TODAY IS INDEPENDENCE DAY IN NIGERIA, THE NSE WILL BE SHUT.

 
Country
Notation
Currency
YTD %
 
South Africa
ZAR
8.2721
-2.09
 
Nigeria
NGN
157.20
+3.24
 
Kenya
KES
85.33
-0.30
 
Mauritius
MUR
30.40
-3.45
 
Botswana
BWP
7.6191
+1.94
 
Tanzania
TZS
1574.00
+0.51
 
Uganda
UGX
2540.00
-2.36
 
Rwanda
RWF
622.3579
-2.93
 
Ghana
GHS
1.8940
-13.44
 
BRVM
XOF
510.0161
-0.24
 
Egypt
EGP
6.0958
-1.05
 
Morocco
MAD
8.6529
+0.70
 
Tunisia
TND
1.5761
-4.96

Africa

•  Zambia Central Bank keeps lending rate unchanged for 6th month

Nigeria

•  ASI -24bps, $18.22mill
•  Nigeria seeks 73% of offshore oil profits from the likes of Shell, Exxon when an industry bill is passed into law
•  NSE to target power companies for listing

Kenya

•  NSE20 -21bps, $4.54mill
•  Inflation slows for 10th month to 5.3% increasing calls for rate cut

Botswana

•  DCI +7bps, $34k

Egypt

•  Closed

Mauritius

•  Semdex -12bps, $2.1mill

South Africa

•  Top40 +40bps, $1.6bn

Zambia

•  LuSE -0.002%, $297k

Zimbabwe

•  Ind +71bps, Mining -2.02%, $2.58mill
 

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