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Fixed Income Daily: Bond market and currency metrics for African capital markets
Botswana – Inflation is projected to remain well below the upper limit (6%) of the central bank’s target range (3% - 6%). Annual CPI inflation is forecast to average 3.5% in 2019. The inflation outloo...
Daily Africa Insight: An overview of today’s key events and developments
Ivory Coast: Whipsaw inflation recorded in January and February South Africa: Non-farm jobs up in 2018 Q4
Swaziland Quarterly Update: GDP growth is seen at 0.6% this year, constrained by soft local demand and weak regional growth
After struggling to gain traction last year as depressed local demand and weak regional growth weighed on the kingdom’s economic performance, we expect real GDP to grow by a meagre 0.6% in 2019. The s...
Gabon: Growth to stay morose in 2019 as low oil prices affect exports and government revenue
Structurally low oil prices continue to place pressure on economic growth. Real GDP growth for 2018 was estimated at 1.5%, declining to 1.2% in 2019 due to a slowdown in global growth and a low oil pr...
Talking Point: South Africa - Non-farm jobs up in 2018 Q4
Following a positive revision to the 2018 Q3 figures, Statistics South Africa’s (StatsSA) latest Quarterly Employment Statistics (QES) report shows that non-farm jobs rose for a second consecutive qua...
Talking Point: Ivory Coast - Whipsaw inflation recorded in January and February
After the National Statistics Institute (INS) rebased its consumer price index (CPI) figures from 2008 to 2014, the organisation released its most recent CPI data for January and February 2019. The da...
SA Daily Economic Report: Morning market update
South Africa likely to see a 16% drop in maize output this year Eskom price hike could lead to job cuts German IFO index does little to quell worries over industrial outlook ZAR eases after regaining...
Fixed Income Daily: Bond market and currency metrics for African capital markets
Kenya – Real GDP growth remains strong, while consumer price inflation abated, external balances improved and forex reserves remain at adequate levels. Despite these positives, there are underlying is...
Daily Africa Insight: An overview of today’s key events and developments
Algeria: Inflation trends upwards in February Botswana: Broad-based decline in CPI inflation in February Egypt: Fitch upgrades sovereign credit rating by one notch Gabon: Bongo returns...
Gabon Annual Country Profile: Structurally low oil prices continue to weaken our economic outlook, political situation less fluid since President Ali Bongo's return
Structurally low oil prices continue to place pressure on economic growth. Real GDP growth for 2018 was estimated at 1.5%, declining to 1.2% in 2019 due to a slowdown in global growth and a low oil pr...
Talking Point: Botswana - Broad-based decline in CPI inflation in February
The headline inflation rate ticked slightly lower in February 2019 due to a broad-based decline in price inflation for most items in the consumer price basket, according to Statistics Botswana’s (Stat...
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#SouthAfrica non-farm jobs up by 87,000 q-o-q during 2018 Q4, reaching 10,151,000 in December 2018. Full-time employment up by 50,000 q-o-q ( 9,086,000), part-time employment up by 37,000 q-o-q (1,065,000)
#IvoryCoast #CIV CPI inflation accelerated to 2.1% y-o-y in January before dropping to -0.4% y-o-y in February. The main reason for the whipsaw CPI inflation figures was sharp changes in food price inflation in the first two months of 2019.
The CBE will keep interested rates on hold this month, due to the recent uptick in price inflation. But considering the need for private sector stimulus, the CBE is expected to reduce rates by 100 bps before year end - Nadene Johnson @NKCAfrica iol.co.za/business-repor… via @IOL
UN Says Damage From Southern African Cyclone May Top $1 Billion - goo.gl/alerts/qzpYD
Egypt's central bank seen maintaining key rates - goo.gl/alerts/KmSn7
Sars’ inflation forecast of 5.3% for next year means there’s no option for a cut, but there’s also no scope to increase rates because economic growth is under pressure, Elize Kruger, moneyweb.co.za/news/africa/wh… via @Moneyweb
Food-price inflation to rise sharply as Mozambican authorities import food with an already weakened currency - Pieter du Preez @NKCAfrica bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @business
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