Mozambique | - Part 6

Mozambique’s Eurobond Strategy May Damage Restructure Prospects

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…

Mozambique to Miss Coupon Payment on Eurobond, Ministry Says

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MAPUTO (Capital Markets in Africa) – Mozambique will miss an interest payment on dollar bonds this week because of its deteriorating fiscal position. The government’s capacity to make debt payments is “extremely limited in 2017, and does not allow the republic room to make the scheduled interest payment on the notes,” the Ministry of Economy and Finance said in an e-mailed statement on Monday. Mozambique is in talks with the International Monetary Fund about resuming…

Banks Batten Down in Mozambique as Bond-Coupon Payment Looms

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JOHANNESBURG (Capital Markets in Africa) – Africa’s largest banks are ensuring they protect themselves and their clients from the potential fallout if Mozambique defaults on its government debt next week. Standard Bank Group Ltd., the continent’s biggest lender by assets, is holding liquidity in excess of regulatory requirements in its Mozambique unit “to cater for funding withdrawals during periods of stress,” said Finance Director Arno Daehnke. FirstRand Ltd.’s consumer-banking business, First National Bank, is holding all of…

Mozambique May Defaults on Eurobond Next Week, JPMorgan Says

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MAPUTO (Capital Markets in Africa) – Mozambique is “highly unlikely” to pay a $60 million coupon on January 18, JPMorgan Chase & Co. said, sending the government’s Eurobond tumbling closer to an all-time low. The $727 million of notes due in January 2023 fell 3.2 percent to 57.999 cents on the dollar as of 2:12 p.m. in London, trading less than 2 cents away from an all-time low. The yield rose 90 basis points to 24.05…

Mozambique Says Tight Monetary Policy Is Starting to Bear Fruit

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MAPUTO (Capital Markets in Africa) -Mozambique’s metical is stabilizing and the inflation rate is forecast to drop after an aggressive rate hike by the central bank in October, according to Governor Rogerio Zandamela. “The most recent information reported in the last quarter of the year is more encouraging,” Zandamela told reporters Monday in the capital, Maputo. “We noted that monetary adjustment has begun to produce the desired effects.” Inflation, which accelerated to 26.8 percent in November,…

Mozambique Holds Key Interest Rate as Inflation Seen Peaking

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MAPUTO (Capital Markets in Africa) – Mozambique’s central bank held its key lending rate, with inflation expected to peak as the debt-distressed nation’s currency stabilizes. The Monetary Policy Committee kept the benchmark rate at 23.25 percent, Governor Rogerio Zandamela told reporters Wednesday in the capital, Maputo.Banco de Mocambique has raised the monetary policy rate by a total 13.5 percentage points in past meetings this year to try stem spiraling consumer prices in the coal-producing country. Consumer prices have…

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