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Central Bank of Kenya Retains CBR at 11.5% and KBRR at 9.87%

Nairobi, Kenya, Capital Market in Africa — The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) met on Wednesday 20 January 2016 to review market development and the outcome of its previous monetary policy decision. The MPC decided to keep the Central Bank Rate (CBR) at 11.5 percent for the fifth time in a row. The rate has been retained since early July. It was first raised in May 2015 to 10 per cent,…

Foreign Portfolio Investors are net sellers on the Nigeria’s Bourse in 2015

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Lagos, Nigeria, Capital Markets in Africa — The total transactions at Nigerian Stock Exchange fell 41.72 percent from NGN 189.72 billion recorded in January to NGN 110.56 billion (about US$0.56 billion) in December 2015. This represents a decrease of 13.49% from N127.8 billion recorded in November. Likewise, Foreign Portfolio Investor (FPI) transactions decreased by 33.39 percent from NGN1,538.92 billion recorded at the end of 2014 to NGN 1,025.07 billion at the end of 2015. Out of…

IMF Cuts South Africa’s and Nigeria’s Economic Growth Forecast for 2016

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LONDON, Capital Markets in Africa — The International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently published the latest update to its world economic outlook. The document is tagged “Subdued Demand, Diminished Prospects”. In the January publication, the global economic prospects is downgraded to projected at 3.4 percent in 2016 (compare to 3.6 percent in October 2015 forecast) and 3.6 percent in 2017 (3.8 percent in October 2015 release). The pickup in global activity is projected to be more…

Africa Equity Weekly | 15 Jan 2016: Egypt, Nigeria, South Africa in red … Mauritius, Tunis in green

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Lagos, Nigeria, Capital Markets in Africa — The global market’s poor start to the year continued this week as investors sold off on equities and junk bonds globally in a flight to safety due to increasing downside risk of a hard landing in China, credit defaults in high yield junk bonds, weaker global growth and softer commodity prices. Brent crude traded below the US$30.0pb line on Friday, with broader analysts’ outlook of a bottom ranging…

African Sovereign Eurobond 2015 Review: Eurobond issuance steady at $6.75billion, but with a higher premium

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Lagos, Nigeria, Capital Markets in Africa — The year 2015 was a challenging year for African economies as a result of falling commodity prices, lower demand from China and the hike in the US Fed rates. In spite of this, the Eurobond issuance by African sovereigns still came to US$6.750 billion for 2015 compared to the record US$8.7 billion issued in 2014. The market value weighted average issue yield is at 7.90 percent (a higher premium compared to other emerging economy Eurobonds)….

Nigerian Stock Exchange Introduces Circuit Breaker as Stocks Plunge

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Lagos, Nigeria, Capital Markets in Africa —- Nigeria’s stock exchange introduced a circuit breaker to limit price fluctuates (fall/rise). Trading on the Nigerian Stock Exchange will be stopped for 30 minutes if the All Share Index moves 5 percent from the previous day’s close between 10:15 a.m. and 1:45 p.m. (local time), the Lagos-based exchange stated in a statement on its website. The market will close for the day if the circuit breaker is triggered for…

ICD supports Ivory Coast to successfully Issue the largest West African Sovereign Sukuk

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Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Capital Markets in Africa — On 21st December 2015 the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire, acting through the Ministry of Economy and Finance, closed an inaugural local currency, CFA 150 Billion (USD 244 million) Sukuk al-Ijara (“Sukuk”). The Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (“ICD”), an arm of the Jeddah-based Islamic Development Bank, acted as the Lead Arranger. The sukuk with a five‐year maturity, was subscribed by regional…

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