Market Insight: September 04, 2014


Africa

•  Ivory Coast said to target 1.8m tons of cocoa in 2014-15
•  Zimbabwe crises sees pensioners rear chickens

Nigeria

•  ASI -14bps, $15.1mill
•  Things slowed down yesterday with one or two crosses driving proceedings

Kenya

•  NSE20 unch, $7.4mill
•  The Central Bank kept the benchmark rate unchanged at 8.5%

Botswana

•  DCI -1bps, $274k

Egypt

•  EGX30 +4bps, $115mill

Mauritius

•  Semdex -14bps, $1.39mill

Zimbabwe

•  Ind +115bps, $2.47mill

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

10.68

-1.81

Nigeria

NGN

162.37

-1.27

Kenya

KES

88.70

-2.71

Mauritius

MUR

31.01

-3.10

Botswana

BWP

8.91

-1.88

Tanzania

TZS

1662.00

-4.33

Uganda

UGX

2608.00

-3.11

Rwanda

RWF

690.40

-2.09

Ghana

GHS

3.82

-37.98

BRVM

XOF

501.79

-4.32

Egypt

EGP

7.15

-2.85

Morocco

MAD

8.48

-3.63

Tunisia

TND

1.74

-5.48

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