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Mozambique Eurobond Default Heralds Lengthy Uncertainty, Fitch Says

MAPUTO (Capital Markets in Africa) – Fitch Ratings-London-20 January 2017: Mozambique’s failure to pay USD59.8m in interest on a sovereign Eurobond points to an extended period of uncertainty as the country seeks to restructure its debt, Fitch Ratings says. It has no sovereign rating impact because Fitch already downgraded Mozambique’s Long-Term Foreign Currency Issuer Default Rating to ‘RD’ in November after confirmation that a state-owned enterprise missed a payment on a sovereign-guaranteed loan in May…

Mozambique’s Eurobond Strategy May Damage Restructure Prospects

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MAPUTO (Capital Markets in Africa) – Mozambique’s decision to skip an interest payment on its Eurobonds this week was a strategic move that will be damaging for the debt-restructuring process it started, a group of investors said. “The non-payment of Wednesday was a strategic default and was not driven by the inability to make the payment,” said Charles Blitzer, a Washington-based consultant who’s advising a group of creditors that hold the majority of the bonds. “This…

Mozambique Bondholders Lay Down Terms Ahead of Restructuring

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MAPUTO (Capital Markets in Africa) – A group of key Mozambique bondholders laid down terms to the embattled government ahead of restructuring talks, calling on it to revoke guarantees on loans taken on by two state-owned companies. The southeast African nation, which defaulted on its only Eurobond in January, should also liquidate the two firms — ProIndicus and Mozambique Asset Management — as well as a third, a tuna-fishing company known as Ematum, the so-called Global…

Ghana’s Eurobond Loosens IMF Straitjacket Ahead of Elections

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ACCRA, Capital Markets in Africa: Ghana will have more fiscal room to maneuver ahead of elections as a fifth Eurobond gives the nation funds to pay debt and implement projects amid spending restrictions imposed by the International Monetary Fund. West Africa’s second-largest economy raised $750 million at a yield of 9.25 percent last week in an auction that was more than four times oversubscribed. About $400 million of the bond proceeds will be used to refinance the nation’s…

Ghana Eurobond Return More Than Five Times Oversubscribed

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ACCRA, Ghana, Capital Markets in Africa: Ghana raised $750 million selling Eurobonds at a yield of 9.25 percent in an auction that was more than five times oversubscribed, a month after abandoning plans to issue debt due to the price demanded by investors. Yields on the nation’s existing dollar bonds fell to 14-month lows. The country received orders exceeding $4 billion for the bond that will be repaid in three equal installments between September 2020 and…

African Development Bank Sees Africa Eurobond Issuance Slowing on Rate Concern

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LAGOS, Nigeria, Capital Markets in Africa: African governments may curtail foreign-currency bond sales in coming months amid expectation that U.S. policy tightening will make it more expensive to pay back those debts, African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina said. “Right now there is a little bit of caginess with regard to issuing dollar bonds or Eurobonds because the Fed rates are going up, which means it’s becoming a race to the top of the yield curve,” Adesina…

Senegal President Sall Says Nation Will Sell Bond This Year

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DAKAR, Senegal, Capital Markets in Africa: Senegalese President Macky Sall said his administration will tap the international bond market this year to fund infrastructure development and accelerate growth that’s being driven by surging peanut and rice production. The West African nation intends raising $500 million to $1 billion through the sale of a Eurobond, Sukuk or Samurai bonds, Sall said in a May 13 interview in Kigali, Rwanda’s capital, where the World Economic Forum held its annual…

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