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Banks Send South Africa Stocks to Record as Foreign Buying Persists

JOHANNESBURG (Capital Markets in Africa) – Johannesburg’s benchmark stock index rose to a record, joining a global rally, as foreign investors continued purchases amid optimism about steps to improve management of Africa’s most-industrialized economy. The FTSE/JSE Africa All Share Index rose as much as 0.9 percent to 61,610.33 Tuesday. Naspers Ltd. contributed the most to the benchmark’s advance after Tencent Holdings Ltd., in which it owns a stake, climbed to an all-time high in Hong Kong. An…

Nigeria’s Political Deadlock Threatens Economic Rebound

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Nigeria’s central bank has fallen victim to a battle between President Muhammadu Buhari and his parliament. The Monetary Policy Committee won’t meet as scheduled this week because it lacks a quorum after the Senate refused to approve Buhari’s nominees for the panel, meaning the central bank couldn’t formally set interest rates. That setback adds to the economic fallout from a longstanding political standoff: lawmakers are threatening to delay his budget for a third year…

Zimbabwe Considers Building Reserves to Back Currency Relaunch

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HARARE (Capital Markets in Africa) – Zimbabwe’s new president, Emmerson Mnangagwa, said his government is considering building reserves of gold and diamonds to back the eventual relaunch of the country’s own currency. The nation abandoned the Zimbabwe dollar in February 2009 after an economic collapse saw inflation surge to about 500 billion percent, according to the International Monetary Fund, after exports slumped and international lenders had withdrawn lines of credit. This resulted in the central bank…

Allianz Risk Barometer: Corruption, a burden on Nigerian businesses

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Johannesburg, January 19, 2018: The Allianz Risk Barometer 2018 report reveals theft, fraud and corruption as the top risk in Nigeria with 38% of responses, up from #4 in 2017. Market developments remains unchanged at #2 at 36% of responses and changes in legislation & regulation also remains unmoved at #3 with 33% of responses. Fire, explosion and power blackouts (both #7 with 16% of responses) emerged as two new risks in the top 10….

Did Bitcoin Just Burst? How It Compares to History’s Big Bubbles

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Bitcoin’s recent wobbles have given fresh urgency to a question that’s gripped market observers for much of the past year: Will the cryptocurrency go down as one of history’s most infamous bubbles, alongside tulipmania and the dot-com craze? The magnitude of Bitcoin’s boom (before it lost as much as 50 percent from its Dec. 18 high) suggests investors have reason to be worried. As the chart shows, the cryptocurrency’s nearly 60-fold…

Cameroon, Chad Seek Company to Study $9 Billion Railway Plan

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YAOUNDE (Capital Markets in Africa) – Transport authorities in Cameroon and Chad are looking for a company to carry out feasibility studies for the construction of a rail link between the neighbouring Central African countries. “Apart from designating the firm to conduct the studies, we’re also looking for a contractor for the project,” Cameroon’s Transport Minister Edgar Alain Mebe Ngo’o said in an interview in the capital, Yaounde. The railway is estimated to cost 5 trillion…

Farmer-Herder Violence in Central Nigeria Challenges Buhari

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LAGOS (capital Markets in Africa) Already grappling with Islamist militants in the northeast, secessionists in the east and unrest in the oil-rich Niger River delta, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari is facing an upsurge in violence between crop farmers and herders that may threaten his party’s election chances next year. Images of bodies hacked with machetes and perforated by bullets shared on social media are galvanizing voices against Buhari. More than 120 people were killed in Benue and…

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