The Markets | - Part 149

Bitcoin Fund’s 91-for-1 Share Split Is Another Dot-Com Flashback

LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Here’s one more way Cryptocurrencies are mimicking the dot-com frenzy as they capture popular attention: massive stock splits. Greyscale Investments announced that its Bitcoin Investment Trust — an open-ended fund that provides the purest exposure to owning the most popular currency short of owning the underlying asset — will undergo a 91-for-1 spliton Jan. 26. That’ll turn the 1.9 million shares currently outstanding into a whopping 174.4 million. Based on…

Faceless Men Upend South African Stocks on Steinhoff 2.0 Fears

Posted on by The Editorial Team

JOHANNESBURG (Capital Markets in Africa) – The name is enough to spread mayhem among South African traders. And all Viceroy Research is willing to disclose is that they’re three people working out of New York to protect investors. Stocks including Africa’s largest generics drug maker and biggest real estate investment trusts were sent reeling this week on speculation that they were in Viceroy’s sights. More than $3 billion was wiped off the value of property stocks alone in just four…

Goldman Says Cryptocurrencies May Succeed as Form of Real Money

Posted on by The Editorial Team

LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Bitcoin may seem like a solution in search of a problem in the U.S., where transaction costs are already low and the dollar stable. But in developing countries, digital currencies could succeed as a real form of money, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. says. Many currencies in sub-Saharan Africa have lost value due to high inflation and supply mismanagement. As a result, foreign money makes up more than 90 percent…

Naspers Is Said to Plan $200 Million Investment in Swiggy

Posted on by The Editorial Team

JOHANNESBURG (Capital Markets in Africa) – Naspers Ltd. is in talks to lead an investment of as much as 2.5 billion rand ($200 million) in India’s Swiggy to increase its stake in the online food-delivery company, according to two people familiar with the matter. Africa’s biggest company by market value plans to team up with China’sTencent Holdings Ltd. to put together the new financing round, said the people, who asked not to be named as the information isn’t…

Angola’s Devaluation Is Just the Start as Investors Expect More

Posted on by The Editorial Team

LUANDA (Capital Markets in Africa) – Angola may have devalued its currency by more than 10 percent, but it will take more than that to end dollar shortages and revive the OPEC member’s battered economy. The kwanza weakened 11 percent to 187.95 per dollar by 2:34 p.m. in Luanda, the capital, a day after the central bank let it drop in an auction of foreign exchange, its first since saying last week it would end an almost…

Nigeria SE Rises 2.2% to 41,241.55; Guaranty Trust Leads Advance

Posted on by The Editorial Team

LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – The Nigerian Stock Exchange Main-Board Index rose for the fifth day, climbing 2.2 percent, or 878.58 to 41,241.55. The index advanced to the highest level in at least a year. The MSCI Emerging Markets Europe, Middle East and Africa Index declined 1 percent. Guaranty Trust Bank Plc contributed the most to the advance, rising 5 percent. Dangote Flour Mills Plc increased 10 percent, the biggest gain. Newrest Asl Nigeria Plc fell 4.9 percent,…

Egyptian Financial & Industrial Rises 5%; Trading Volume Surges

Posted on by The Editorial Team

CAIRO (Capital Markets in Africa) – Egyptian Financial & Industrial Co. rose 4.6 percent, the biggest gain since Oct. 8, 2017 compared with end-of-day price changes and 30 times the country’s benchmark index. The shares climbed to EGP 18.10 from EGP 17.31. Trading volume was almost seven times the 30-day average of 132,061 for this time of day. Egyptian Financial & Industrial’s move compares with little change in the Egyptian Exchange EGX 30 Price Index, which was up 0.15…

« 1 … 147 148 149 150 151 … 260 »