•  Bob Diamond’s Atlas Mara buys ABC Holdings Ltd in first Africa purchase  
•  Pioneer Co. of Zimbabwe FY loss widens to $574,000
 
•  ASI -94bps, $30.4mill 
•  Large crosses in GTB and Zenith drove turnover yesterday with banking stocks (+1.91%) continuing to rally 
•  Nigerian sovereign wealth fund says total assets now at N157.6bn
 
•  NSE20 +29bps, $5.8mill 
•  Not much on the go in Nairobi yesterday with EABL driving proceedings on foreign participation 
• DCI +14bps, $564k
• EGX30 +147bps, $97.7mill
• Semdex +29bps, $1.21mill
• Ind +19bps, mining unch, $753k
| Country | Notation | Currency | YTD % | 
| South Africa | ZAR | 10.57 | -0.68 | 
| Nigeria | NGN | 164.65 | -2.64 | 
| Kenya | KES | 86.45 | -0.17 | 
| Mauritius | MUR | 30.15 | -0.33 | 
| Botswana | BWP | 8.74 | -0.26 | 
| Tanzania | TZS | 1633.00 | -2.63 | 
| Uganda | TZSUGX | 2550.00 | -0.90 | 
| Rwanda | RWF | 676.67 | -0.10 | 
| Ghana | GHS | 2.68 | -11.38 | 
| BRVM | XOF | 475.15 | +1.05 | 
| Egypt | EGP | 6.96 | -0.29 | 
| Morocco | MAD | 8.15 | +0.30 | 
| Tunisia | TND | 1.58 | +4.19 |