Market Insight: October 16, 2012


African Currencies

 
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

•  Ghana’s Duffuor says oil output may see growth beat forecast
•  West African gas pipein plans to resume supplies by year-end
•  Zimbabwe Competition Commission investigating Innscor, Cimas

Nigeria

•  Accurate volume and ASI movement was not available yesterday due to system issues
•  UBA released Q3 numbers which saw PAT increase 47.5%
•  Skye Bank released Q3 numbers which saw PAT increase 429.7%

Kenya

•  NSE20 +0.86%, $2.62mill
•  Kenya Airways, FastJet get approval for low-cost flights

Botswana

•  DCI -0.45bps, $1.56mill

Egypt

•  EGX30 -19bps, $73mill

Mauritius

•  Semdex +13bps, $1.58mill

South Africa

•  Top40 +56bps, $1.00bn

Zambia

•  LuSE -1bps, $25k

Zimbabwe

•  Ind +6bps, mining -78bps, $1.32mill
 

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