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Merkel, Japan’s Abe Seek to Avoid Chaos From No-Deal Brexit

LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said they want to head off a no-deal Brexit that could rattle their economies, as both braced against the U.K.’s increasingly chaotic course toward an exit from the EU. Abe and Merkel, both 64, are two of the most outspoken defenders of the international order being shaken by Brexit and the U.S.-China trade war, as well as President Donald Trump’s questioning of decades-old alliances. Their…

Trump Threatens to Bust Border Deal as Shutdown Deadline Nears

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Congress has only a few days left to come up with an agreement on border security spending to prevent a government shutdown and may yet see the process upended once President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union address on Tuesday. Trump in recent days has repeatedly declared the negotiations a waste of time and said Feb. 1 that his speech to a joint session of Congress would reveal more…

Going Private, Bitcoin ETF , Price Fixing Allegations

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Senate Banking Committee Chairman Mike Crapo released a plan for housing-finance legislation that would end U.S. control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the latest sign that Congress will try again to complete the last outstanding business of the 2008 credit crisis. Under the plan outlined in a statement Friday, Fannie and Freddie would survive as private mortgage guarantors, while facing new competitors and strict limits on capital and business lines….

Emerging-Market ETFs See Biggest Inflow in Year as Risks Abound

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Traders defied all the jitters over a global economic slowdown and piled into emerging-market ETFs for a 16th straight week. Investors added $3.9 billion to stock and bond ETFs across developing nations as well as those that target specific countries in the week ended Feb. 1 — the most in more than a year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. That’s pushed up this year’s inflows to $11.8 billion….

WAEMU: Medium-term growth outlook subject to risks

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – The International Monetary Fund projected real GDP growth in the economies of the West African Economic & Monetary Union (WAEMU), which consist of Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal and Togo, at more than 6% annually over the medium term. It said that achieving this growth rate is conditional on all member countries making a strong commitment to implement their fiscal consolidation and development programs, which…

Partech announces the final closing of its Partech Africa fund at EUR125mn

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Partech announces the final closing of its Partech Africa fund at €125 M ($143 M) above its hard cap and establishes East Africa presence. The Partech Africa Fund achieves a final closing at €125M, more than double the size of its first closing a year ago at €57M ($70M). Backed by a unique set of financial institutions, major corporate partners and successful entrepreneurs, Partech Africa sets out with the…

Dublin Is Bursting at the Seams, and That’s Even Before Brexit

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LONDON (Capital Markets in Africa) – Conall Laverty, who raised over $1 million for his Dublin-based startup, jokes that his mother still wants to know when he’s going to get a real job — maybe at Google or one of the other technology giants scattered across the city. U.S. companies flooding into Ireland now employ, either directly or indirectly, about one in five workers in the country. Last month, Facebook Inc. and Salesforce.com Inc. unveiled plans to hire 2,500 more people…

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