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Africa Equity’s Black Monday in Pictures: $28bn knocked off the market on Monday 24th Aug

Lagos, Nigeria (Capital Markets in Africa) — On Monday 24th August, about $1.6 trillion was wiped off the global equity market capitalization, as panic on China’s trading floors sent shock waves through global markets. African equity markets were not spared in the attack and about $28 billion was shed off its equity market capitalization with slumps in key markets. For breakdown and details see the chart below ….

African Equity Market July 2015 Report: BRVM rewards local investors, Botswana strengthens foreigners capital

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Lagos, Nigeria, Capital Markets in Africa — African stock market performance measured by country equity benchmark index return ended in negative for the month of July, with eight gainers and 10 losers on local currency basis. The July average return of -1.5 percent was recorded across eighteen African equity indices and July monthly returns ranges from -9.8% registered by the Nigeria equity markets (measured by NSE All Share) to 8.2% recorded by Cote d’Ivoire equity market (measured…

Foreign Portfolio Investors are net sellers on the NSE in May 2015

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Lagos, Nigeria (Capital Markets in Africa) — Foreign Portfolio Investor (FPI) transactions at the Nigerian bourse decreased to N79.77 billion (about US$ 0.41 billion) in May 2015, down 23.26% from April 2015, amid uncertainity in the fiscal policy direction of the new government, resulting from delays in the appointment of key Ministers. Also, the recent currency control policy by the Central Bank of Nigeria to defend the local currency to preserve the foreign reserves. The local…

Nigeria Bourse Seeks to Start Trading Naira Currency Futures

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Lagos, Nigeria (Capital Markets in Africa) — The Nigerian Stock Exchange plans to start trading naira futures that will help investors hedge against movements in the local currency, Chief Executive Officer Oscar Onyema said. “It would be awesome if we had a naira-dollar contract that we could trade on the exchange,” he said in an interview in London on Monday. “Futures and options are asset classes that we think would be very beneficial to foreign…

Kenya : Centum Investment’s US$61 million bond oversubscribed

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Nairobi, Kenya (Capital Markets in Africa) — Centum Investments five-year corporate bond worth up to KES 6 billion has been oversubscribed by 38 percent attracting bids worth KES 8.3 billion. The bond is made up of a fixed-rate component and an equity-linked portion that will give a variable return determined by the firm’s net asset value. The total amount accepted for the fixed rate notes is KSE 3.9 billion while for the equity linked notes is KES 2.1 billion, with…

Egypt bourse to show strong performance, says Merrill Lynch

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Cairo, Egypt (Capital Markets in Africa) — Egypt’s stock market is likely to show strong improvement in the near term, said BofA Merrill Lynch in its emerging markets report. The Egyptian Exchange has suffered steep declines in recent months, but the bullish performance in May partially pared such losses, especially after concerns about the local currency abated and the capital gains tax was delayed for two years, according to the report. Merrill Lynch also said…

Emaar Misr says 15% of IPO available for individuals, 85% for institutions

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Cairo, Egypt (Capital Markets in Africa):- Emaar Misr for Development, the Egypt-based subsidiary of UAE’s Emaar Properties, said Sunday around 90 million of its shares, representing 15% of its planned initial public offering will be offered for individuals, while nearly 51 million shares, or 85% of total floated shares, will be available for institutions. Subscription application for the individual tranche will have a minimum of 100 shares and maximum of 10 million shares. 25% of…

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