Author: The Editorial Team

CAIRO (Capital Markets in Africa) – Egypt wants to tear down a strategy that’s left one of the Middle East’s most indebted countries hooked on short-term borrowing. The government is looking to raise the share of longer-dated debt to about 70 percent of annual domestic issuance by 2022 from 5 percent in the last fiscal year, Deputy Finance Minister Ahmed Kouchouk said in an interview. In making a “gradual shift” away from short-term T-bills and toward instruments such as Treasury…

LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Investors added money to emerging-market exchange-traded funds at the slowest pace this year last week, another sign that the optimism from the start of 2019 is wearing thin. Inflows into U.S.-listed funds that invest across developing nations as well as those that target specific countries totaled $313.1 million in the five days through Feb. 15, a fraction of the $3.97 billion inflow in the previous week, according to data…

LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Nigerian Breweries Plc (NB) FY’18 results, top line growth came in at N324.4 billion (-5.9% YoY) for the year, in line with our estimate of N320.6 billion (+1.2% deviation). In the same vein, after-tax earnings declined by 41.1% YoY to print at N19.4 billion, although under-performing our estimate of N22.2 billion. The deviation from our profit-after-tax estimate was as a result of negative surprises stemming from higher direct costs, finance…