Market Insight: March 07, 2014


Africa

•  Eskom starts first South African blackouts since 2008
•  Congo freezes mining expansion projects amid power shortage

Nigeria

•  ASI -47bps, $21.92m
•  Roller coaster in Consumers resumes as the sector lost 1.03% with Flrou Mills (-6.5%) the biggest loser

Kenya

•  NSE20 -13bps, $10.4m
•  High foreign activity in EABL, Safcom and KNCB

Botswana

•  DCI -9bps, $815k

Egypt

•  EGX30 -94bps, $125m

Mauritius

•  Semdex -6bps, $1.41m

South Africa

•  Top40 +66bps, $1.5bn

Zimbabwe

•  Ind -48bps, Mining -9.21%, $2.71m

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

10.63

-1.38

Nigeria

NGN

163.85

-2.16

Kenya

KES

86.55

-0.29

Mauritius

MUR

30.15

-0.33

Botswana

BWP

8.81

-0.70

Tanzania

TZS

1630.00

-2.45

Uganda

UGX

2513.00

+0.56

Rwanda

RWF

681.51

-0.81

Ghana

GHS

2.54

-6.68

BRVM

XOF

476.85

-0.70

Egypt

EGP

6.95

-0.18

Morocco

MAD

8.12

-0.69

Tunisia

TND

1.57

+4.71

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