Market Insight: September 26, 2013


Africa

•  Ghana Producer Prices rise 4.7% in Aug, from previous year

Nigeria

•  ASI +0.24%, $16.47m
•  Another dull day although consumers were up an impressive 92bps with most of the action taking place in DangSugar (+1.21%) and Nestle (+2.02%) while NB (+57bps) and Guinness (+1.63%) also strong

Kenya

•  NSE20 +0.37%, $7.6m
•  Foreign buying returned in force thus pushing the SNE and volumes higher. Safcom in demand (+1.8%) as foreign buying pushes the name higher

Botswana

•  DCI +1bp, $182k

Egypt

•  EGX30 -0.27%, $55m

Mauritius

•  Semdex -0.08%, $286k

South Africa

•  Top40 +0.97%, $1.53bn

Zimbabwe

•  Ind +0.65%, Mining unch, $1.9m

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

9.87

-14.22

Nigeria

NGN

160.02

-2.74

Kenya

KES

87.20

-1.26

Mauritius

MUR

30.60

-0.16

Botswana

BWP

8.47

+8.86

Tanzania

TZS

1614.00

-1.80

Uganda

UGX

2557.50

+4.70

Rwanda

RWF

670.00

-5.75

Ghana

GHS

2.18

-12.64

BRVM

XOF

488.32

+2.23

Egypt

EGP

6.89

-7.66

Morocco

MAD

8.30

+1.96

Tunisia

TND

1.64

-5.60

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