Angola | - Part 9

Fitch: Angola’s Move to End IMF Talks Increases External Risks

ANGOLA, Capital Markets in Africa: The Angolan government’s decision to discontinue talks with the IMF on a potential loan increases risks to the sovereign’s external financing position if no other sources of external funding are available, Fitch Ratings says. We identified deteriorating external dynamics as a rating sensitivity when we revised the Outlook on Angola’s ‘B+’ sovereign rating to Negative from Stable in March. The IMF said last week that Angola wanted to halt talks…

Angolan Bonds Plunge as President Warns of Debt Payment Struggle

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ANGOLA, Capital Markets in Africa: Yields on Angolan Eurobonds soared after the leader of Africa’s largest oil producer said the country is struggling to meet its debt payments because of the crash in crude prices. Revenues are “barely enough” to pay off debt owed by the government and Sonangol, the state oil company, President Jose Eduardo dos Santos said at a meeting of the ruling MPLA party, according to a broadcast on state TV Friday. The central…

Commodity | Trafigura Profit Boosted by Angola Buying Dormant Iron Ore Mine

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LAGOS, Nigeria, Capital Markets in Africa: Trafigura Group Pte’s first-half profit was boosted through a deal where the Angolan government paid millions of dollars for a dormant iron ore project, allowing the trading house to avoid a 50 percent drop in net income. The transaction, reported in a note in its earnings report earlier this month, enabled the Singapore-based trading house to book a one-time gain of almost $265 million in the six months to March…

Angolan Party Rejects President’s Daughter as Oil Company Head

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Luanda, Angola, Capital Markets in Africa: Angola’s main opposition party rejected President Jose Eduardo dos Santos’s decision to name his billionaire daughter Isabel as chairwoman of the state oil company and said it would ask parliament to debate the appointment. “The measure confirms once more the practice of nepotism by President Jose Eduardo dos Santos,” the National Union for Total Independence of Angola, known as Unita, said Tuesday in an e-mailed statement. “Angolans should not accept…

Angola Leader Secures Economic Grip Naming Daughter as Oil Boss

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Luanda, Angola, Capital Markets in Africa: Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos tightened his family’s grip on sub-Saharan Africa’s third-biggest economy two years before he has indicated he’ll leave office by naming his billionaire daughter Isabel as chairwoman of the state oil company. The appointment “shows that President dos Santos doesn’t trust anyone else and moreover that he’s looking to have a dynastic succession,” Markus Weimer, an analyst for Horizon Client Access Inc., an energy investment advisory group, said…

Private Equity | Half of the Angola Sovereign Wealth Fund invest in Private Equity

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Luanda, Angola, Capital Markets in Africa: Angola’s sovereign wealth fund said it put more than half of its investments in private equity funds focused in the country and across sub-Saharan Africa last year, describing its performance as “solid,” particularly in light of the global economic turbulence. The fund, known as FSDEA, had assets worth $4.7 billion in 2015 after being endowed with $5 billion from the government in 2014, according to an investment update released on…

Angola’s Central Bank Maintains Rates on stable inflation in April 2016

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Luanda, Angola, Capital Markets in Africa — National Bank of Angola (BNA, Banco Nacional de Angola) Monetary Policy Committee (CPM) held a meeting on 29 April 2016, decided to maintained the Basic Interest Rate at 14.oo%, BNA said in a statement on its website on Thursday. In addition, the central bank left the standing lending facility rate at 16% and kept the overnight standing liquidity absorption facility rate at 2.25%. In March 2016, the monthly inflation…

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