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Upheaval Sends Kenya’s Yields Higher Than Ghana’s for First Time

NAIROBI (Capital Markets in Africa) – Bond investors are getting worried about the political upheaval in Kenya. Opposition leader Raila Odinga’s decision to pull out of an election rerun on Tuesday, which threatens a constitutional crisis, spurred the yield on the nation’s dollar bonds due 2024 to rise 13 basis points. The rate climbed to 6.48 percent as of 2:50 p.m. in Nairobi, above the yield on Ghana’s Eurobonds due 2023 for the first since 2014. Kenyan notes have lost…

How Deep Will Saudi Cut Its Oil Output? To the Lowest Since 2015?

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Saudi Arabia has promised to do “whatever it takes” to end the global oil glut. If it cuts supplies in November by as much as it pledges, the kingdom will reduce production and exports alike by more or less a million barrels a day compared with last year. And that’s about all the world’s biggest oil exporter — and linchpin of a global plan to bolster crude markets — can do…

Johannesburg’s Executive Mayor Herman Mashaba to address African Real Estate & Infrastructure Summit in Sandton on 25 October

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“Growth in employment opportunities can only come about in the City if we transform the inner city, which has long been neglected; both the inhabitants and building infrastructure. To do this we must also work within the private sector to fix our infrastructure, generate jobs and achieve higher levels of service delivery.” This is according to the Honourable Herman Mashaba, the Executive Mayor of the City of Johannesburg, who will deliver the keynote address during…

Mondi Falls as Rising Costs, Currency Moves Weigh on Earnings

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JOHANNESBURG (Capital Markets in Africa) – Mondi Limited shares slumped the most in more than a year after South Africa’s biggest packaging maker said rising costs and unfavourable currency moves would see full-year earnings come in below expectations. The stock plunged as much as 7 percent in early trade in Johannesburg and London, the most intraday since June 2016. The cost of wood, energy and chemicals increased in the three months through September, while the weaker…

Rand Bulls Snub Risks as ING Sees South African Currency Rising

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JOHANNESBURG (Capital Markets in Africa) – Analysts at Rand Merchant Bank and ING Groep NV predict the South African currency, the second-worst emerging-market performer in the past month, will rebound against the dollar by year-end as the pull of improving fundamentals and the hunt for yield support buyers amid lingering political and fiscal risks. The rand fell to a six-month low of 13.8618 per dollar this week as tepid economic growth, an African National Congress leadership…

Kenya Plans to Start Oil Exports, Award Blocks Early 2018

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NAIROBI (Capital Markets in Africa) – Kenya plans to ship its first oil at the end of February and award 17 new exploration blocks during the first quarter of 2018, the Energy Ministry said. While East Africa’s biggest economy was scheduled to export its first crude in June, it delayed the pilot program following a tussle between the Turkana community in Kenya’s northwest — where Tullow Oil Plc has discovered 1 billion barrels of oil — and the central government…

Mkhize Plays Unity Card in Bid to Lead South Africa’s ANC

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JOHANNESBURG (Capital Markets in Africa) – As the battle to succeed President Jacob Zuma as leader of South Africa’s ruling party grows increasingly bitter, party Treasurer-General Zweli Mkhize is positioning himself as the one candidate who can stop the African National Congress from splitting apart. “If I was to be elected there are specific things that I would contribute to the ANC that would take it forward — unity is the one main issue,” Mkhize said in an interview…

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