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Kenya Economy Shrinks for First Time in 12 Years on Covid-19 (2)

NAIROBI (Capital Markets in Africa) — Kenya’s economy contracted for the first time in almost 12 years in the second quarter as the impact of the coronavirus pandemic battered key sectors. Gross domestic product fell 5.7%, compared with growth of 4.9% in the three months through March and expansion of 5.3% in the same period a year earlier, the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics said Thursday on its website. The median of six economists’ estimates…

WTO Finalist Wants Body to Confront Issues to Level Trade Field

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) — One of two candidates to lead the World Trade Organization said she wants the body to overcome its problems so that it can create a level playing field for international commerce and see a return to a multilateral system. “Let us get back to a multilateral system. Let’s strengthen that — that is what will serve the world and let’s do less of the bilateral spats that we see,”…

Nigeria’s Fixed-Income Investors See Inflation Eroding Returns

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LAGOS(Capital Markets in Africa) — Local investors are piling into Nigeria’s short-term debt even though rising inflation means that they are reaping negative real returns. Prices increases in Africa’s largest economy accelerated for a 13th straight month in September, according to data released by the statistics agency on Thursday. Even so, rates on Treasury Bills slipped to the lowest levels seen in more than 10 years at an auction on Wednesday. The one-year bill sold…

Libor Exit Race for Derivatives Awaits ‘Starting Pistol’

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LONDON (Capital Markets in Africa) — The global derivatives market looks set to accelerate its exit from Libor with the impending release of standardized contractual terms designed to ease the transition to new rates. The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, the trade group for the industry, will publish its hotly anticipated Libor protocol on Oct. 23 after receiving approval from the U.S. Department of Justice, ISDA said in a statement on Friday. The publication “will effectively fire…

Fitch Ratings: USD Libor Transition Still Difficult Despite Protocol Milestone

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – The January 2021 launch of fallbacks for derivatives contracts that reference Libor will still make it challenging for the industry to adopt new term rates referencing the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) before Libor ceases to be quoted at end-2021, Fitch Ratings says. Development of a SOFR term reference rate relies on sufficient liquidity in the SOFR-based USD derivatives market, which remains thin compared to traded notionals for USD…

Trump Boasts at Florida Rally of Feeling ‘So Powerful’

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NEW YORK (Capital Markets in Africa) — President Donald Trump returned to the campaign trail on Monday night, boasting at a rally in Florida that he felt “so powerful” after his recovery from Covid-19 that he wanted to walk into the audience and “kiss everyone.” “I am so energized by your prayers and humbled by your support,” Trump said at the outdoor rally at the Orlando Sanford International Airport, where there was little social distancing…

This Idea Deserves a Nobel, But It’s Failed India: Mihir Sharma

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) — Economists like to think of themselves as mathematicians — or, if feeling momentarily humbler, as physicists. This year’s winners of the Nobel Prize in economics, however, seem to conceive of themselves more as engineers. Like Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley, who won the prize in 2012, Paul Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson are specialists in “market design,” a field which, as Roth wrote in a famous paper, calls for…

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