Market Insight: September 25, 2013


Africa

•  Zimbabwe bourse to be fully automated by Q1 2014
•  Namibia’s corporate debt stocks rose 15% in H1

Nigeria

•  ASI -0.09%, $18.40mill
•  Apart from action in Guaranty Trust Bank and Zenith Bank, things were very quiet

Kenya

•  NSE20 -0.21%, $6.3mill
•  Crosses in Safcom and EABL drove activity yesterday
•  Kenya will stick to schedule for Eurobond even after mall siege

Botswana

•  DCI unch, $1.36mill

Egypt

•  EGX30 +59bps, $75mill

Mauritius

•  Semdex -55bps, $748k

South Africa

•  Closed yesterday

Zimbabwe

•  Ind +117bps, mining unch, $660k

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

9.86

-14.14

Nigeria

NGN

160.55

-2.74

Kenya

KES

87.40

-1.49

Mauritius

MUR

30.65

-0.33

Botswana

BWP

8.48

+8.99

Tanzania

TZS

1613.00

-1.74

Uganda

UGX

2547.25

+5.12

Rwanda

RWF

653.64

-3.39

Ghana

GHS

2.18

-12.64

BRVM

XOF

488.86

+2.13

Egypt

EGP

6.89

-7.69

Morocco

MAD

8.30

+1.93

Tunisia

TND

1.65

-6.12

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