Market Insight: October 17, 2012


African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency
YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

8.7242
-7.26

Nigeria

NGN

157.15
+3.28

Kenya

KES

85.05
+0.02

Mauritius

MUR

30.70
-4.40

Botswana

BWP

7.8834
+5.48

Tanzania

TZS

1576.00
+0.38

Uganda

UGX

2580.00
-3.88

Rwanda

RWF

625.2393
-3.37

Ghana

GHS

1.8875
-13.14

BRVM

XOF

505.5352
+0.64

Egypt

EGP

6.1004
-1.13

Morocco

MAD

8.5493
+0.49

Tunisia

TND

1.5609
-4.03

 

 

 

 

Africa

•  Tanzania plans to take 50% stake in Richland’s TanzaniteOne unit
•  Zimbabwe law blocks investigation of pre-2009 rights abuses

Nigeria

•  ASI -0.11%, $23.47mill
•  Unilever released Q3 results which saw PAT come in at N4.007bn
•  Diamond Bank to raise $300m for lending
•  Nigeria expects $1.3bn from sale of power distributors

Kenya

•  NSE20 +0.07%, $4.5mill
•  Lake Turkana wind project delayed again by lending talks

Botswana

•  DCI +5bps, $34k

Egypt

•  EGX30 +5bps, $93mill

Mauritius

•  Semdex -27bps, $1mill

South Africa

•  Top40 +95bps, $1.50bn

Zambia

•  LuSE -142bps, $15k

Zimbabwe

•  Ind -6bps, Mining unch, $938k
 

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