The Markets | - Part 170

Libya Oil Output Set to Recover Following Sharara Brief Halt

TRIPOLI (Capital Markets in Africa) – Libya’s oil production is set to recover from a five-month low as the North African supplier’s biggest field restarts following a brief halt. The OPEC member’s output is expected to rise to 1 million barrels a day from 800,000 within 2-3 days as the Sharara oil field restarts Tuesday, National Oil Corp. Chairman Mustafa Sanalla said Monday in a televised interview on Libya TV. The field produced about 234,000 barrels a day before guards…

Hedge Funds Flip ICOs, Leaving Other Investors Holding the Bag

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Instead of speculating on bitcoin, the smart money has figured out that one of the surest way to get rich quickly with cryptocurrencies is to be in early on initial coin offerings. Hedge funds are proving to be first among equals when it comes to digital token sales by technology startups, receiving preferential discounts and terms and then often cashing out. While legal, the maneuver is drawing comparisons to some…

U.S.’s Top Financial Cop Warns ICO Market Probably Full of Fraud

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Wall Street’s top regulator has a warning for mom-and-pop investors who are rushing into the booming market for initial coin offerings: the space is probably full of fraud. “It would shock me if you don’t see pump-and-dump schemes in the initial coin offering space,” U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton said on Thursday in Washington. “This is an area where I’m concerned about what’s going to happen to retail…

Bitcoin `More Than Just a Fad,’ Morgan Stanley CEO Gorman Says

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Morgan Stanley Chief Executive Officer James Gorman takes a more measured view on the cryptocurrency than crosstown rival Jamie Dimon, the JPMorgan Chase & Co. head who earlier this month called it “a fraud” that’s in a speculative bubble worse than tulip bulbs. Bitcoin is “certainly something more than just a fad,” Gorman said Wednesday at an event held by the Wall Street Journal. “The concept of anonymous currency is a very interesting…

Michael Ove, A 31-Year-Old Wants to Revolutionize Cryptocurrency Trading

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Michael Oved helped Virtu Financial Incorporation become the most consistently profitable market maker in the history of electronic trading. Now he has his sights set on revolutionizing how digital currency exchanges operate. The new company he cofounded, AirSwap, sounds like a contradiction in terms: A decentralized exchange. Made possible by the nascent technology of the ethereum blockchain, there’s no central authority around which buyers and sellers gather. Instead, a computer program known as…

Nigeria Plans to Sell $5.5 Billion of Eurobonds by Year-End

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Nigeria plans to sell as much as $5.5 billion of Eurobonds in the next three months to fund capital projects and replace local-currency debt, according to the Debt Management Office. Yields on existing bonds rose to the highest in two months. The new offers would bring the amount raised through Eurobond sales by Africa’s most-populous nation this year to more than $7 billion as President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration restructures its…

Overstock Unit Starting an Exchange for Digital Coin Trading

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – The digital token market may be about to become a little bit more like Wall Street. tZero, a subsidiary of online retailer Overstock.com Inc., is joining with Argon Group and RenGen LLC to form a digital tokens exchange that Overstock Chief Executive Officer Patrick Byrne said will be the first in compliance with Securities Exchange Commission and Financial Industry Regulatory Authority guidelines. There’s a pipeline of about $2 billion in digital assets…

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