Market Insight: October 26, 2012


African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

8.72

-7.24

Nigeria

NGN

157.25

+3.21

Kenya

KES

85.13

-0.06

Mauritius

MUR

30.95

-5.17

Botswana

BWP

7.88

+5.44

Tanzania

TZS

1585.00

-0.22

Uganda

UGX

2590.00

-4.25

Rwanda

RWF

626.40

-3.55

Ghana

GHS

1.87

-12.68

BRVM

XOF

505.69

+0.61

Egypt

EGP

6.10

-1.15

Morocco

MAD

8.58

+0.05

Tunisia

TND

1.56

-4.41

Africa

•  MTN raises full-year forecast as customers in SA and Nigeria continue to grow
•  Paris Club Creditors agree to reduce Guinea debt by 99.2% (USD655.9mill)
•  Econet Wireless Zim announces 2012 H1 results, recording $78mill profit

Nigeria

•  Closed Thursday 25 Oct and Friday 26 Oct

Kenya

•  NSE20 +0.59%, $2.98m
•  Relatively quiet day as foreign investors largely absent
•  KCB announced 2012 Q3 results after the session, results looked decent

Botswana

•  DCI +0.04%, $8k

Egypt

•  Closed

Mauritius

•  Semdex -0.16%, $661k

South Africa

•  Top40 +0.09%, $1.1bn

Zambia

•  LuSE -0.014%, $85k

Zimbabwe

•  Ind -0.59%, Mining +0.89%, $1.79m
 

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