The Markets | - Part 164

South Sudan Targets Doubling Oil Output in 2018, First Refining

SOUTH SUDAN (Capital Markets in Africa) – South Sudan targets more than doubling oil production to 280,000 barrels per day next year as it restarts output that was suspended at some fields because of an almost four-year civil war. The government is seeking to restore production to about 150,000 barrels per day by the end of 2017, from 130,000 barrels, Petroleum Minister Ezekiel Lul Gatkuoth told an energy industry conference in the capital, Juba, on Wednesday….

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

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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…

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…

IMF Sees No `Substantive’ Zambian Aid-Deal Talks This Month

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LUSAKA (Capital Markets in Africa) – The Zambian government and the International Monetary Fund won’t be holding meaningful discussions on a proposed $1.3-billion aid program at the Washington-based lender’s annual meetings this month after talks were put on hold in August. The nation’s Eurobond yields climbed. “IMF staff will be meeting the Zambian delegation at the IMF-World Bank annual meetings to discuss next steps,” Alfredo Baldini, the fund’s resident representative in Lusaka, Zambia’s capital, said in reply…

What to Watch for as Wall Street Reports Third-Quarter Results

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – What to make of the surge in cryptocurrencies? Will the Trump administration’s tax-overhaul proposals find traction anytime soon? The biggest U.S. banks are about to show how much those uncertainties, and the slide in market volatility, affected third-quarter results and the lenders’ outlooks. JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Citigroup Inc. come first, on Thursday. Here are some likely takeaways: Trading Revenue Trading probably dropped from the same period a…

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