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Emerging Markets Head for Weekly Decline on Fed Rate Concern

LAGOS, Capital Markets in Africa: Emerging-market stocks were poised for the first weekly decline in more than a month and currencies dropped as caution prevailed among investors struggling to assess the outlook for higher U.S. interest rates. Consumer stocks led declines among all 10 industry groups in the MSCI benchmark as the gauge dropped from a one-year high. The South African rand and South Korean won posted the biggest losses among currencies, weakening at least 0.9 percent. Turkish bonds…

MONETIZATION OF GAS TO POWER IN AFRICA

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LAGOS, Nigeria, Capital Markets in Africa: Gas to power offers African countries the quickest route to significant mid-merit and base load Grid and Distributed electricity, keeping generation close to demand centres to support economic growth and development. In order to understand gas-to-power and its place in the African energy mix we need to assess global trends in energy, with natural gas now widely regarded as the transition fuel to a future characterized by low-carbon energy…

Zambia, IMF Reach ‘Broad Consensus’ on Deal, Lungu Says

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LIUSAKA, Capital Markets in Africa: Zambia has made “great progress and reached broad consensus” with the International Monetary Fund on a planned support package, President-elect Edgar Lungu said. Yields on the nation’s Eurobonds fell to the lowest in more than a year. Lungu, who narrowly won a Aug. 11 presidential election in Africa’s second-biggest copper producer, said in an e-mailed statement that having been elected for a whole term has given him time to implement difficult decisions he…

Chaos Looms in South Africa Local Councils as Malema Holds Veto

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JOHANNESBURG, Capital Markets in Africa: Sporting a slimmed-down physique and a newly earned university degree, South Africa’s political provocateur Julius Malema has emerged as the kingmaker in several key cities where the ruling party has lost outright control. The result may be chaotic. With neither the ruling African National Congress nor the main opposition Democratic Alliance winning a majority in 27 towns in Aug. 3 elections, Malema, 35, and his Economic Freedom Fighters may wield a veto…

Private Equity: A Value Add Infrastructure Investor, the largest Asset Class in Africa

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LAGOS, Nigeria, Capital Markets in Africa: Sub-Saharan Africa’s economies have shown impressive growth since the global financial crisis, outperforming the global average by 200 basis points. A critical underpin to this growth has been the flow of foreign capital from private sources into the continent’s leading economies. In no other sector is this as prevalent as infrastructure. Infrastructure development in Africa has lagged behind population growth over the past fifty years, and governments have begun…

Congo Slashes Growth Forecast After Drop in Copper Production

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DR CONGO, Capital Markets in Africa: The Democratic Republic of Congo cut its growth forecast for 2016 for the third time this year because of lower commodity prices and warned the economy could slow further if other industries don’t perform. The government “has duly noted the slowdown in economic growth in the DRC” in the first half, Prime Minister Augustin Matata Ponyo’s office said in a statement e-mailed from the capital, Kinshasa, on Thursday. It lowered the estimate…

Chinese to Invest $819 Million in South African Car Industry

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SOUTH AFRICA, Capital Markets in Africa: A Chinese state-owned car manufacturing company will invest 11 billion rand ($819 million) in a new plant in South Africa, giving a further boost to one of the fastest-growing industries in the continent’s largest economy. Beijing Automotive International Corp. signed the deal with the Coega Development Corporation, the operator of an industrial development zone in South Africa’s southern coast city of Port Elizabeth, Coega said in an e-mailed statement on…

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