The Editorial Team |

Shell, Nigeria’s Aiteo Locked in Legal Battle Over Loan Default

LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) — Royal Dutch Shell Plc and seven banks accused one of Nigeria’s largest oil producers of defaulting on loan repayments that stand at more than $900 million and are locked in a court battle to reclaim the money, legal documents show. The previously unreported impasse stems from a deal that Aiteo Eastern E&P Co. did six years ago to purchase a major interest in one of the nation’s most prized oil blocks…

Dozens Dead After Attack Near Total Project in Mozambique

Posted on by The Editorial Team

MAPUTO (Capital Markets in Africa) — An insurgent attack on a Mozambican town near a $20 billion liquefied natural gas project that Total SE is building left dozens of people dead and state infrastructure destroyed, the government said. The attackers, who Defense Ministry spokesman Omar Saranga called terrorists, aimed to threaten the development of the energy projects, he told reporters Sunday in Maputo, the capital. Insurgents on March 24 attacked the coastal town of Palma,…

Stuck Ship Is Refloated and Maneuvers Continue: Suez Update

Posted on by The Editorial Team

CAIRO (Capital Markets in Africa) — The container ship stuck in the Suez Canal has been refloated, and its position moved about 80%, but maneuvers will continue this morning around high tide, the Canal Authority said. It’s the first step to clearing the blockage in one of the world’s most important trade arteries. “Today we will start our plan for all the ships to cross the canal, and it could take around one week to…

Democratic Republic of Congo bucks trend with rise in FDI in 2020

Posted on by The Editorial Team

KINSHASA (Capital Markets in Africa) – The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) saw foreign direct investment (FDI) activity reach a decade-high in 2020, countering a crunch seen across emerging markets caused by the pandemic. The country attracted 12 greenfield foreign investment projects last year, up from five in 2019, matching its decade-high seen in 2011, according to data from investment tracker fDi Markets. This increase in activity is counter to the 45% decline in greenfield FDI projects…

Value Investing: Capitulation or Opportunity?

Posted on by The Editorial Team

LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Value stocks trade at prices below their fundamental value. If prices of stocks converge towards their fundamental values then it is natural to expect value stocks to outperform their more expensive peers, at least on average. This outperformance is known as the value premium. Value stocks have severely underperformed in recent years, leading many investors to question the relevance of value investing or even to contemplate its demise. However,…

Investing after COVID-19: finding lasting opportunities in the new normal

Posted on by The Editorial Team

LONDON (Capital Markets in Africa) – To call 2020 “unprecedented” wouldn’t begin to do justice to the depth of challenges individuals and organizations around the world found themselves unexpectedly confronting over the past year—nor the speed with which those challenges arrived. It was early January when news broke of a pneumonia-like virus circulating in Wuhan, China; before the end of the month, the World Health Organization had declared COVID-19 a global public health emergency, and…

Bitcoin Is Exactly Like Gold Except When It Isn’t

Posted on by The Editorial Team

LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Bitcoin has been described as digital gold. The phrase digital gold may be a brilliant and highly informative metaphor, a cynically clever sales trick (a form of associative and repetitive priming) intended to boost bitcoin trading by naïve investors or, perhaps, an indication of the futility of explaining the utility of bitcoin. Elmandjra (2020) embraces the concept of bitcoin as digital gold and enthusiastically recommends bitcoin investment while Furman…

« 1 … 104 105 106 107 108 … 1,078 »