Market Insight: October 30, 2013


Africa

•  Ghana’s Amissah-Arthur says economy to expand 7.2% this year
•  Zambian president reinstates export levy on unprocessed metals

Nigeria

•  ASI +0.63%, $20.05mill
•  Rather dull from an activity point of view yesterday
•  A slew of Q3 2013 results were released yesterday

Kenya

•  The market did not open due to technical issues

Botswana

•  DCI +4bps, $194k

Egypt

•  EGX30 +41bps, $106mill

Mauritius

•  Semdex +69bps, $3.05mill

South Africa

•  Top40 +10bps, $1.06bn

Zimbabwe

•  Ind -4bps, mining +unch, $1.21mill

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

9.86

-14.09

Nigeria

NGN

159.30

-1.98

Kenya

KES

85.20

+1.06

Mauritius

MUR

30.00

+1.83

Botswana

BWP

8.43

+8.35

Tanzania

TZS

1605.00

-1.25

Uganda

UGX

2522.90

+6.14

Rwanda

RWF

672.18

-6.06

Ghana

GHS

2.21

-13.82

BRVM

XOF

478.26

+4.38

Egypt

EGP

6.89

-7.66

Morocco

MAD

8.15

+3.77

Tunisia

TND

1.62

-4.61

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