Market Insight: May 27, 2015

Nigeria

•  ASI +43bps, $18.5mill
•  Banks (+0.37%) had a decent day while Consumers (-0.46%) closed lower

Activity picked up yesterday thanks to a few crosses in the bigger names, but it was still nothing to write home about. Much of the same is expected today.

Kenya

•  NSE20 -11bps, $10.3mill
•  Locals dominated proceedings yesterday with a cross in Centum

The market continues to be bearish with safcom today down 2.24% on a volume of 1.1m at shs 15.45. the biggest loser at the moment is eabl, down 4.35% on a volume of 69.2k. KNRE is also down 3.5% on 2,600 shares follwed by centum down 2.4% on 143,000 shares at shs 62. Equity bank remains fairly stable at shs 47.50/48 with most of the buyers currently being foreigners. The counter has moved 158,000 shares at 47.75.

Botswana

•  DCI +5bps, $2.29mill

Mauritius

•  Semdex -24bps, $2.31mill

Zimbabwe

•  Ind -135bps, $2.2mill

African Currencies

Country

Notation

Currency

YTD %

South Africa

ZAR

12.06

-4.16

Nigeria

NGN

199.05

-7.84

Kenya

KES

97.90

-7.46

Mauritius

MUR

35.50

-10.57

Botswana

BWP

9.89

-3.66

Tanzania

TZS

2063.00

-16.00

Uganda

UGX

3035.00

-8.70

Rwanda

RWF

690.50

-0.10

Ghana

GHS

4.02

-20.08

BRVM

XOF

605.43

-10.46

Egypt

EGP

7.62

-6.26

Morocco

MAD

9.87

-8.18

Tunisia

TND

1.92

-5.58

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