Market Insight: October 09, 2013


Nigeria

•  ASI +13bps, $18.56m
•  Large off-market cross of 18m Dangote Cement shares the main activity

Kenya

•  NSE20 +1.01%, $11.4m
•  Local buyers joined the aggressive foreign buying and pushed the index northwards yet again. Blue chips names continue to rally hard, Equity Bank +4.9%, KNCB +2.1%and Safcom +3.3%

Botswana

•  DCI +7bps, $554k

Egypt

•  EGX30 -20bps, $54m

Mauritius

•  Semdex +2bps, $1.1m

South Africa

•  Top40 -1.21%, $1.42bn

Zimbabwe

•  Ind +19bps, Mining -3.37%, $1.72m

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

9.96

-14.94

Nigeria

NGN

159.70

-2.22

Kenya

KES

84.85

+1.47

Mauritius

MUR

30.52

+0.10

Botswana

BWP

8.49

+9.09

Tanzania

TZS

1610.00

-1.55

Uganda

UGX

2543.00

+5.30

Rwanda

RWF

670.50

-5.82

Ghana

GHS

2.19

-13.04

BRVM

XOF

485.85

+2.75

Egypt

EGP

6.89

-7.66

Morocco

MAD

8.25

+2.48

Tunisia

TND

1.64

-5.61

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