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INTO AFRICA March 2017 Edition: Africa’s Lions: Trust in Fundamentals

LAGOS, Nigeria, Capital Markets in Africa: Welcome to March edition of INTO AFRICA, the publication with fresh insight into Africa’s emerging capital markets. Please download by clicking: INTO AFRICA PUBLICATION: MARCH 2017 EDITION. Recent years have been challenging for Africa: so is the honeymoon over or did the wedding even take place? The oil price crash has had a serious impact on several African countries; the strength of the dollar is causing financing and FX issues; incidences of terrorism…

Ghana Leaves Key Rate Steady as Policy Makers Seek Stable Cedi

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ACCRA (Capital Markets in Africa) – Ghana’s central bank unexpectedly kept its benchmark rate unchanged as it balanced the risks to inflation and economic growth. The Bank of Ghana’s Monetary Policy Committee left the rate at 25.5 percent, Governor Abdul Nashiru Issahaku told reporters Monday in the capital, Accra. Only two of six economists in a Bloomberg survey said the central bank would keep borrowing costs unchanged, while the remaining four predicted a rate cut of 50 to…

What’s the Continent’s Inflation Rate doing: Falling or Rising?

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Angola inflation rises to 38 percent year-on-year in August Angola’s inflation quickened to 38.18 percent year-on-year in August from 35.3 percent in July, data from the national statistics agency. Prices increased at a slower pace in August, to 3.3 percent month-on-month from 4.04 percent in July. Rwandan inflation fell to 6.4 percent year-on-year in August from 6.9 percent in July, the state-run statistics office said on Saturday. Botswana inflation slows to 2.6 percent in August…

Infrastructure | South Sudan Seeks $1.9 Billion Chinese Loan as Inflation Rockets

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South Sudan, Capital Markets in Africa: it’s seeking a $1.9 billion loan from China to develop its oilfields and roads, as the war-torn African country battles inflation that exceeded 660 percent last month. Foreign Minister Deng Alor Kuol requested the financial assistance during arecent visit to the Asian nation and the Export-Import Bank of China “is working on this loan,” ministry spokesman Mawien Makol Arik said Tuesday by phone from the capital, Juba. South Sudan has sub-Saharan Africa’s…

Nigeria | Decade’s Peak Inflation Deepens Dilemma for Nigeria in Slump

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LAGOS, Nigeria, Capital Markets in Africa: Caught between the highest inflation rate in more than a decade and an economy set to contract for the first time since 1991, Nigeria’s central bank may opt to do nothing. Governor Godwin Emefiele is under pressure to limit inflation, which accelerated to almost double the upper end of the central bank’s target range last month, while the economy will probably contract by 1.8 percent this year, according to the International Monetary…

Nigeria Inflation 16.5% in June, Highest in Almost 11 Years

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LAGOS, Capital Markets in Africa: Nigerian inflation accelerated to the highest rate in almost 11 years in June, complicating the task of the central bank in an economy which is at risk of contracting this year. The inflation rate in Africa’s largest economy increased to 16.5 percent from 15.6 in May, the Abuja-based National Bureau of Statistics said in an e-mailed statement on Monday. That’s the highest rate since October 2005, according to data on the Central Bank of…

Morocco central bank cuts benchmark interest rate to 2.25 percent

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CASABLANCA, Morocco, Capital Markets in Africa — The Moroccan central bank cut its benchmark interest rate on Tuesday for the first time since December 2014 in an attempt to stimulate an economy hurt by weak cereal production and non-agriculture activity. The Bank reduced the key rate by 25 basis points to 2.25 percent, Bank Al-Maghrib said in a statement. The central bank also lowered its growth forecast for this year to 1 percent from 3…

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