Egypt | - Part 14

Barclays sells Egyptian Business to Morocco’s Attijariwafa Bank

LONDON (Capital Markets in Africa) – Britain’s Barclays has completed the sale of its Egyptian business to Morocco’s Attijariwafa Bank as part of its shift towards focussing on the United States and Britain. The sale will mean a cut of about 2 billion pounds in Barclays’ risk-weighted assets, it said on Tuesday, boosting the bank’s core capital ratio by about 0.1 percent. Barclays did not give a price for the transaction, although sources previously told Reuters…

Orange Egypt signs 4G licence deal worth $484 mln

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CAIRO (Capital Markets in Africa) – Orange Egypt signed a licence deal on Thursday, paying $484 million to operate fourth-generation mobile phone services in the country of 90 million after the government agreed to offer it additional spectrum. Egypt is selling four 4G licences as part of a long-awaited plan to reform the telecoms sector and to raise money for stretched government finances. The country’s three existing mobile phone operators – Orange, Vodafone and Etisalat –…

Egypt’s debts to international oil companies rise to $3.58 bln at end-Sept

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CAIRO (Capital Markets in Africa) – Egypt’s debts to international oil and gas companies rose to $3.58 billion by the end of September, the oil minister said, from about $3.2 billion six months ago. The oil ministry said last year that it aimed to reduce its arrears to foreign oil and gas companies operating in the country to $2.5 billion by the end of 2015 and pay them off completely by the end of 2016….

Egypt stocks up on strategic commodities ahead of devaluation

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CAIRO (Capital Markets in Africa) – Egypt said it plans to build a six month reserve of essential food items, adding to other recent purchases of commodities such as oil and wheat, in what traders said was a move to build up stocks ahead of a currency devaluation. Prime Minister Sherif Ismail said late on Tuesday the country would look to import 500,000 tonnes of rice and 400,000 tonnes of sugar to boost reserves and keep…

Egypt Stocks Surge on Bets Devaluation Will Drive Growth Rebound

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CAIRO (Capital Markets in Africa) – Egyptian stocks advanced the most in more than two months as investors bet that policy makers may devalue the country’s currency as soon as this week, luring back foreign investors and giving a lift to an embattled economy. The EGX 30 Index gained 3.2 percent, the most among more than 90 indexes tracked by Bloomberg globally after Ghanaian equities, to close at 8,133.12. Financial stocks, such as Commercial International Bank Egypt, the country’s largest…

‘Super Rate Hike’ Still Seen in Egypt as Devaluation Looms

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CAIRO, Capital Markets in Africa: Egypt’s central bank, which unexpectedly left borrowing costs unchanged last week, is keeping its powder dry for what one economist called a “super” rate increase. Five out of 8 economists in a Bloomberg survey had expected the Monetary Policy Committee to raise its key rate on Thursday to curb accelerating inflation and lay the ground for a widely anticipated devaluation. The meeting was likely the last before Egypt secures a…

Egypt eyes $10 bln in foreign investment as it upgrades infrastructure

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CAIRO, Capital Markets in Africa: Egypt hopes to attract $10 billion in foreign direct investment (FDI) next year and will automate the process of establishing a company, its investment chief said, highlighting efforts to revive the economy and earn much-needed hard currency. The most populous Arab country has been scrambling to attract the investment needed to restore growth since the 2011 uprising, which ushered in protracted political turmoil and scared away tourists and foreign investors…

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