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South Africa GDP Far From Pre-Covid Levels Even as Recession Ends

JOHANNESBURG (Capital Markets in Africa) — South Africa’s economy may only get back to pre-Covid 19 levels by 2025 and remains vulnerable to a local resurgence of the pandemic, even after exiting its longest recession in 28 years. Gross domestic product expanded an annualized 66.1% in the three months through September from the previous quarter following a 51.7% decline in the second quarter, Statistics South Africa said Tuesday in the capital, Pretoria. That was more…

Moody’s downgrades Namibia’s ratings to Ba3, maintains negative outlook

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NAMIBIA (Capital Markets in Africa) – Moody’s Investors Service (“Moody’s”) downgraded the long-term issuer and senior unsecured ratings of the Government of Namibia to Ba3. The outlook remains negative. The downgrade reflects a further weakening in Namibia’s fiscal strength despite policy statements of plans to rein in the fiscal deficit. The debt burden is now markedly higher, it will continue to rise for the foreseeable future; debt affordability is weakening. The coronavirus shock continues to…

Moody’s changes outlook on Gabon’s rating to stable from positive, affirms Caa1 rating

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GABON (Capital Markets in Africa): Moody’s Investors Service (“Moody’s”) has today affirmed the Government of Gabon’s Caa1 long-term issuer ratings and changed the outlook to stable from positive. The rating on Gabon’s foreign currency senior unsecured debt has also been affirmed at Caa1. The key driver for the outlook change to stable is Gabon’s more limited institutional improvements than previously seemed possible, combined with rising liquidity pressures from the coronavirus crisis and associated oil price…

U.K. Announces Law to Protect Key Assets From Foreign Buyers (2)

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) — The U.K. plans sweeping powers to intervene in foreign takeovers of British assets deemed a threat to national security. A draft law to be published Wednesday would expand the range of transactions open to government intervention, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said. There will be scope for fines and retroactive interventions in deals that complete after the bill’s publication — a potentially controversial provision that critics…

Quants With $1 Trillion Poised to Buy Stocks as Volatility Falls

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) — With the biggest event risk in recent memory over, Wall Street is quietly confident that systematic funds that take their cues from market swings are set to spend billions of dollars, fueling this stock rally. For this $1 trillion cohort, it all hinges on stable prices, a relative rarity during this rocky year. But lately, equities are sending the right signals. Realized volatility is starting to come down in…

Pompeo Talks of New Trump Term, Playing to False-Claim Furor

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New York(Bloomberg) — Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said Tuesday there will be a “smooth transition to a second Trump administration,” a remark which may have been in jest but throws fuel on the president’s unsubstantiated claims that the Nov. 3 election was fraudulent. “The world should have every confidence” that the Jan. 20 transitions will be successful, Pompeo said from the State Department podium in response to a reporter’s question about Joe Biden’s electoral…

Biden Brushes Off Trump’s Long-Shot Effort to Undermine Election

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) — President-elect Joe Biden shrugged off Donald Trump’s effort to challenge the election results, forging ahead with transition planning even as the president pursues a multi-state legal fight backed by Republican allies and the Justice Department. Trump’s campaign on Tuesday said it would file a federal lawsuit in Michigan that seeks to stop the state’s top election official from certifying Biden’s win. The campaign filed a similar suit in Pennsylvania…

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