Market Insight: October 17, 2014


Africa

•  Mozambiques ruling party leads in early unofficial vote count
•  Vodafone gets chance to tighten grip on Africa with Vodacom

Nigeria

•  ASI -201bps, $46.6mill
•  Large crosses in Zenith ($10.05m), ETI ($8.48m), FBNH ($6.25m) and NB ($3.89m) drove activity
•  Banks continued to come under pressure with the Index falling -.56%

Kenya

•  NSE20 -28bps, $7.5mill
•  A rather average day in Nairobi yesterday

Botswana

•  DCI -1bps, $555k

Mauritius

•  Semdex -38bps, $3.88mill

Zimbabwe

•  Ind +4bps, $645k

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

11.10

-5.45

Nigeria

NGN

165.07

-2.89

Kenya

KES

89.25

-3.31

Mauritius

MUR

31.32

-4.05

Botswana

BWP

9.19

-4.77

Tanzania

TZS

1691.00

-5.97

Uganda

UGX

2675.00

-5.53

Rwanda

RWF

692.51

-2.38

Ghana

GHS

3.21

-26.13

BRVM

XOF

516.23

-6.95

Egypt

EGP

7.15

-2.84

Morocco

MAD

8.67

-5.70

Tunisia

TND

1.79

-8.22

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