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Fixed Income Daily: Bond market and currency metrics for African capital markets
Uganda – The macro outlook remains favourable, with real GDP growth forecast to ease only slightly to 5.9% this year and to remain near 6% p.a. over the medium term. Oil development should continue to...
Daily Africa Insight: An overview of today’s key events and developments
Botswana: Inflation eases in April, dropping below lower target level. Ivory Coast: Inflation recorded in April. South Africa: Upcoming data releases signal status quo. Tanzania: Multi...
Talking Point: Tanzania - Multilateral partners remain engaged amid uncertainty
In April, the Minister of Finance, Phillip Mpango, announced that the World Bank had approved a $1.7bn credit facility to the Tanzanian government for the fiscal year 2019/20 (FY; July 1 - June 30). A...
Talking Point: Ivory Coast - Inflation recorded in April
The latest data from the National Statistics Institute (INS) reveals that Ivory Coast’s consumer price index (CPI) increased by 0.8% y-o-y in April. The main drivers of inflation were the sub-indices...
SA Weekly Economic Report: Key developments for the week ended 17 May
The JSE All Share Index (-0.4%) was under pressure this week as concerns surrounding global trade weighed on the local market. Investors were cautious about investing in riskier emerging market equiti...
Talking Point: Botswana - Inflation eases in April, dropping below lower target level
The headline inflation rate declined in April 2019 mainly due to a moderation in housing & utilities and transport price inflation, according to Statistics Botswana’s (StatsBots) latest data. More...
Talking Point: South Africa - Upcoming data releases signal status quo
An important data week ahead for South Africa, with April’s CPI print, the decision by the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the South African Reserve Bank (Sarb) on interest rates and an expected re...
Talking Point: South Africa - Upcoming data releases signal status quo
An important data week ahead for South Africa, with April’s CPI print, the decision by the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the South African Reserve Bank (Sarb) on interest rates and an expected re...
Cameroon Quarterly Update: Despite continuing headwinds, economic growth is set to remain solid as several ongoing infrastructure developments start to materialise
Although Cameroon has been faced with increasing economic headwinds fuelled by continued conflict in the Anglophone regions, ongoing Boko Haram insurgencies at the Lake Chad Basin and dwindling oil pr...
Weekly Africa Political Risk Report: Overview of the past week’s political developments
Algeria: Louisa Hanoune arrested (May 10). Cameroon: Bearing the fekeng branch of peace (May 15). Rwanda: Ingabire questioned for organising meeting (May 16). South Africa: Premier sel...
SA Daily Economic Report: Morning market update
Moody's emphasises effective policy reform Philly Fed manufacturing shrugs off rising trade tensions Increase in Q1 eurozone exports defies the gloom ZAR slips as the greenback flexes its muscles
Fixed Income Daily: Bond market and currency metrics for African capital markets
Tanzania – We expect annual consumer price inflation to pick up this year to 4.0% as base effects from lower food prices begin to dissipate, before trending around 5.9% in 2020. The expected uptick in...
Weekly Africa Insight: Overview of the past week’s political and macroeconomic developments
Algeria: Louisa Hanoune arrested (May 10). Cameroon: Bearing the fekeng branch of peace (May 15). Egypt: CPI inflation eases in April (May 10). Ghana: Inflation surprises to the upside...
Daily Africa Insight: An overview of today’s key events and developments
Ghana: Inflation surprises to the upside. Kenya: Another heavily oversubscribed Eurobond. Namibia: Annual inflation rate remains unchanged. Nigeria: Inflation shifts direction in April...
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Inflation (0.8% y-o-y) recorded in April for #IvoryCoast, and prices are expected to rise in 2019 due to a slow start to the rainy season this year.
#Botswana #inflation eases in April, dropping below lower target level of 3%.
#Sudan’s military announces a 72-hour suspension of negotiations following clashes in #Khartoum. This is soon after a breakthrough agreement was announced less than a day ago.
#Namibia annual #inflation rate remains unchanged at 4.5%; no change in repo rate expected in 2019.
#Tunisia growth slows sharply in Q1 as agriculture and industry contract. Outlook also fairly bleak, with rising global trade tensions, protests before the election and higher energy costs weighing on industrial activity.
#Rwanda Victoire Ingabire is taken in for questioning for an unauthorised public meeting. Could authorities use this event to lock her up again? Meanwhile, there is no news on her assistant Anselme Mutuyimana’s mysterious death in March.
#Nigeria inflation increases to 11.4% in April, first rise this year. Risks to the outlook are also mounting. Aside from stubbornly high food prices, demand conditions have also improved and the higher minimum wage will provide a further boost.
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