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Weekly Wrap & Outlook June 28, 2019 joins the group of oil producing countries in Africa Looking Forward

Earlier in the week, the Kenyan government signed an agreement with oil majors; Total, Tullow Oil, and Africa Oil Corp, to develop a Egypt Jun-19 Inflation - July 10th 60,000-80,000 barrels per day crude processing facility for oil Policy Rate Decision - July 11th discovered in the country’s northwest region. In addition to the processing facility, a crude oil export pipeline from Lokichar to Lamu on Kenya’s coast was also part of the deal. Additionally, the Jun-19 Inflation - July 10th country’s Petroleum and Mining Minister said the partners were now Policy Rate Decision - July 22nd focusing on securing financing for an export crude oil pipeline. Kenya Evidently, the East African giant plans to position itself as a crude oil Q1-19 GDP - June 28th exporter, joining continental majors like Nigeria and Angola. May-19 (CPI) Inflation - June 29th However, the closest comparable economy is Ghana, which Policy Rate Decision - July 24th recently transited from a Gold mining and Cocoa producing economy to an oil-producing country. Similar to Ghana where the Morocco crude oil sector now is complementing output from the mining and Q1-19 GDP - June 28th the Agric. sectors, Kenya will be looking to diversify its mainly Agric Jun-19 (CPI) Inflation - July 22nd

based economy (Horticultural products, Tea and Coffee) to an oil Nigeria mining economy. Jun-19 (CPI) Inflation - July 14th We believe this development brightens the outlook for the East Policy Rate Decision - July 23rd

African Country, which currently leads the world in mobile money. Although the proven reserves in question is relatively small, our only Policy Rate Decision - July 18th concern remains the theoretical Dutch Disease - the paradoxical Jun-19 Inflation - July 24th decline in other sectors of the economy which occurs when good news, such as the discovery oil reserves, harms a country's broader Tunisia economy. Jun-19 Inflation - July 11th

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Macroeconomics | Equities | Fixed Income | Currencies | Commodities June 27, 2019 Px_Last CHG_PCT_1D CHG_PCT_WTDCHG_PCT_YTD PE_Ratio BEST_DIV_YLD Px_to_book_ratio Equities Level Mcap ($'b) WTD (local) YTD (local) P/E P/B Div. Yield ICX10BRVM Index 151.9 9.5 -0.5% -1.6% 8.9 1.8 9.0% EGX30Egypt Index 14,100.7 47.8 0.4% 8.2% 15.3 1.3 3.0% GGSECIGhana Index 2,373.0 4.0 -0.5% -5.1% 19.4 1.9 2.1% NSEASIKenya Index 148.3 21.6 0.7% 5.6% 11.6 1.6 6.1% SEMDEXMauritius Index 2,130.9 8.8 0.7% -3.9% 18.6 0.9 na MCSINDEXMorocco Index 23,653.7 59.8 -1.0% -0.6% na na na NGSEINDXNigeria Index 29,749.4 36.0 -0.3% -5.3% 7.4 1.3 6.1% JALSHSouth AfricaIndex 58,066.7 488.6 -1.5% 10.1% 17.7 1.9 4.0% TUSISETunisia Index 7,065.5 8.2 -0.5% -2.8% 19.0 2.4 2.0% ZHINDUSDZimbabwe Index 768.7 4.9 3.5% 57.8% 32.5 4.3 1.3% MXWOGlobal Index Market 2,158.4 78,978.6 -0.9% 14.6% 18.1 2.4 2.6% MXFMFrontier Index Market 557.9 -- -0.1% 8.1% 12.1 1.8 5.5% MXEFEmerging Index Market 1,047.9 -- -0.5% 8.5% 13.7 1.6 3.0%

Eurobonds Amt Out ($'bn) Average YTM WTD YTD Movements in Global Indices Vs Angola 5.0 7.4% -0.05% -1.8% Africa Egypt 23.2 6.3% 0.00% -1.4% Ghana 8.0 6.9% -0.05% -1.4% Iv ory Coast 4.6 6.2% 0.01% -1.6% Kenya 7.6 6.8% 0.52% -0.7% Morocco 2.3 3.7% -0.02% -1.1% Nigeria 11.2 6.4% -0.11% -1.9%

Senegal 2.9 5.5% -0.05% -1.7% MSCI World S&P 500 GHSSouth BGN Africa Curncy 18.4 4.5% -0.02% -0.8% FTSE 100 MSCI Africa

Tunisia 2.2 7.0% 0.02% -1.9% Apr-18 Jun-18 Aug-18 Oct-18 Dec-18 Feb-19 Apr-19

Currencies (vs. USD) Spot Rate WTD MTD YTD 6M Forward 12M Forward AOAAngola BGN Curncy AOA: Kwanza 341.3 -0.3% -2.8% -9.2% na na EGPEgypt Curncy EGP:Pound 16.7 -0.1% 0.5% 7.3% 17.6 18.5 GHSGhana BGN Curncy GHS:Cedi 5.5 -0.4% -0.5% -10.1% 5.7 6.1 KESKenya BGN Curncy KES: Shilling 102.2 -0.3% -1.0% -0.4% na na MURMauritius BGN Curncy MUR: Rupee 35.7 0.2% 0.9% -4.0% na na MADMorocco BGN Curncy MAD: Dirham 9.6 -0.6% 1.4% -0.3% 9.6 na NGNNigeria BGN Curncy NGN: Naira 360.2 0.0% 0.0% 0.7% 370.0 384.5 ZARSouth BGN Africa Curncy ZAR: Rand 14.1 1.3% 3.1% 1.4% 14.5 14.8 TNDTunisia BGN Curncy TND: Dinar 2.9 1.9% 4.3% 4.3% na na XOFWAMU BGN Curncy CFA: Franc 577.1 0.3% 1.8% -0.8% na na 5 Commodities Spot Rate WTD MTD YTD 52 Week High 52 Week Low 12M Forward CO1Brent Comdty Crude 65.1 -0.2% 3.2% 23.7% 86.7 49.9 GC1Gold COMB Comdty 1,411.6 1.1% 8.1% 10.2% 1,433.3 1,161.4 HG1Copper COMB Comdty 271.4 0.3% 2.9% 3.2% 300.5 254.3 CCN9Cocoa Comdty 2,486.0 1.6% 3.3% 0.7% 2,584.0 2,043.0

Macro & Fixed Income 10Yr Bnd Yld Inflation Real Return Policy Rate *GDP ($'b) **GDP Growth Reserves ($'b) Angola 8.8% 1.1% 7.7% 18.0% 122.1 2.5% 15.8 Egypt 16.8% 14.1% 2.7% 16.8% 235.4 5.3% 44.3 Ghana 19.0% 9.4% 9.6% 16.0% 59.0 6.7% 5.2 Kenya 12.4% 5.5% 6.9% 9.0% 79.3 5.9% 8.4 4.4% 0.8% 3.6% 3.5% 13.3 4.1% 6.8 Morocco 3.1% 0.3% 2.8% 2.9% 109.7 2.9% 24.3 Nigeria 14.4% 11.4% 3.0% 13.5% 375.7 2.0% 45.1 South Africa 8.9% 4.5% 4.4% 6.8% 348.9 0.0% 48.3 15.7% 3.5% 12.2% 12.0% 53.3 7.7% 5.0 Tunisia 9.8% 7.0% 2.8% 7.8% 40.0 1.1% 5.0

Sources: Bloomberg, United Capital Research *GDP ($’b): Annual GDP by World Bank ** GDP Growth: Latest Quarterly GDP Growth