Market Insight: January 13, 2013


Africa

•  Japan’s Abe eyes Mozambique’s gas reserves on Africa visit
•  Adcock Ingram plans to double Africa sales outside of South Africa
•  Zimbabwe to act against Duration Gold on black-ownership laws

Nigeria

•  ASI +0.28%, $38.1mill
•  Large crosses in Nestle and ETI drove turnover on Friday

Kenya

•  NSE20 +0.30%, $9.4mill
•  Safcom once again dominated activity on Friday

Botswana

•  DCI +13bps, $59k

Egypt

•  EGX30 +203bps, $148mill

Mauritius

•  Semdex +6bps, $1.87mill

South Africa

•  Top40 +28bps, $1.09bn

Zimbabwe

•  Ind +61bps, mining -104bps, $3.58mill

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

10.68

-1.75

Nigeria

NGN

158.90

+0.88

Kenya

KES

86.55

-0.29

Mauritius

MUR

30.30

-0.83

Botswana

BWP

8.83

-1.08

Tanzania

TZS

1618.00

-1.44

Uganda

UGX

2513.00

+0.56

Rwanda

RWF

678.00

-0.29

Ghana

GHS

2.37

-0.16

BRVM

XOF

480.97

-0.45

Egypt

EGP

6.96

-0.20

Morocco

MAD

8.21

-0.34

Tunisia

TND

1.65

-0.31

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