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IBM, Comcast Ventures Back Fund for Blockchain Business Startups

LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – International Business Machines Corp. and Comcast Corp.’s venture arm will become the largest supporters of an investment fund for startups that help corporations use blockchain, the digital ledger that’s become a hot technology. The startup accelerator, called MState, plans to invest $25,000 to $50,000 apiece in five or six companies over the next six months, co-founder Rob Bailey said in a phone interview. MState, with locations in New York and…

Nigeria Loses Almost Half Its Power Output After Pipeline Fire

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – A fire at a Nigerian pipeline interrupted gas supplies to companies generating more than 3,000 megawatts in Africa’s most populous nation, the government said. The fire at the Escravos-Lagos pipeline owned by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. in the southern Edo state required a shutdown of the pipeline supplying gas to the 1,320-megawatt Egbin power plant, the nation’s biggest, and five others, according to an emailed statement by the Power,…

South African Regulator Probes Trades in Gupta-Linked Oakbay

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JOHANNESBURG (Capital Markets in Africa) – A South African financial regulator is investigating trades in Oakbay Resources and Energy Ltd., a company linked to the politically connected Gupta family, to determine whether share prices were manipulated over a five-month period. The Financial Services Board will probe share moves from when Oakbay listed in November 2014 through April 2015, the Pretoria-based institution said in an emailed statement on Tuesday. The stock rose almost 11 percent over that…

Egyptian Stocks Leap; EFG-Hermes Predicts 20% Upside in 2018

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CAIRO (Capital Markets in Africa) – Egypt’s main stock benchmark, the EGX 30, gains 2.2% to 14,534.67 as of 12:30pm in Cairo, the steepest intraday advance since March 2. EFG-Hermes sees local market as being in the middle of “a multi-year rally“ supported by broad reforms with multiple catalysts ahead. EGX 30 has 20% upside through the end of 2018, strategist Mohamad Al Hajj writes in a note. Index rises to the highest level in dollar terms since…

Macron Tells African Crowd He Aims to Leave Colonial Past Behind

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OUAGADOUGOU (Capital Markets in Africa) – French President Emmanuel Macron used a speech to African students to put economic development, culture and education on the same level of importance as the terrorism and migration challenges that dominated his predecessors’ relations with the continent. In a speech of almost two hours to a boisterous crowd of students at Ouagadougou University in Burkina Faso, the 39-year-old president laid out his African policy, insisting that France’s colonial past should no…

Glencore’s Trouble in Congo Claim Its Highest Profile Victim

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JOHANNESBURG (Capital Markets in Africa) – Two weeks after the Paradise Papers leak brought a wave of scrutiny over Glencore’s dealings in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the company is facing another scandal. The issues stem from Katanga Mining Ltd., a Congolese copper producer owned by Glencore. The African company restated financial statements and is under investigation by Canadian regulators for its corporate governance and accounting practices. In a major sign of how toxic the problem…

Nigeria’s Forte Oil Falls Most in Nine Months as MSCI Exit Looms

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Nigerian fuel retailer and electricity provider fell 9.7 percent to 43.89 naira by Monday close in Lagos. Volume traded more than 3 times the daily average for past 3 months. Decline “may be related to investors’ reactions to the announcement of the complete removal of the stock from the MSCI Frontier Market Indexes,” Kikelomo Alatise, equity analyst at Lagos-based Meristem Securities, says by email Funds tracking stocks that were deleted…

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