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Fixed Income Daily: Bond market and currency metrics for African capital markets
Mauritius – The tight end heading lower amid inflation reprieve offered by the food and transport sub-indices. Excess liquidity conditions continue to characterise the domestic market, necessitating o...
Daily Africa Insight: An overview of today’s key events and developments
DRC: The Yumbi massacre. Mozambique: Disinflation trend continues in December. Namibia: FDI dries up amid deep recession. Tunisia: Successful public-sector strike against austerity.
Talking Point: Tunisia - Successful public-sector strike against austerity
A public-sector strike on Thursday, January 17, was widely followed, and illustrates the difficulty for the government of implementing the cuts to wage spending that the IMF and European partners see...
SA Weekly Economic Report: Key developments for the week ended January 18
The JSE All Share Index managed to claw back losses on Friday, as the bourse tracked global stocks higher. Large retailers Mr Price (-14.1%), Woolworths (-12.1%) and Truworths (-11.3%) were the week’s...
Talking Point: DRC - The Yumbi massacre
As Kinshasa remains tense while Congolese watch to see what will result from international doubts about the official result of December’s elections, details are emerging about a terrible massacre in t...
Talking Point: Mozambique - Disinflation trend continues in December
The National Institute of Statistics (INE) recently released December’s consumer price index (CPI) data. According to the INE, CPI inflation was recorded at 3.52% y-o-y in December, compared to 4.27%...
Talking Point: Namibia - FDI drying up amid deep recession
Net foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows decreased on an annual basis during the third quarter of last year, according to the Bank of Namibia’s latest data. FDI deteriorated mainly due to lower rei...
Weekly Africa Political Risk Report: Overview of the past week’s political developments
DRC: Moves by Fayulu, Sadc and Cenco (Jan 14). Gabon: Bongo returns home to swear in a new cabinet (Jan 15). Ivory Coast: Gbagbo may walk (Jan 15). Kenya: Al-Shabaab attack in Nairobi...
SA Daily Economic Report: Morning market update
Repo rate kept unchanged at 6.75% Trump cancels Pelosi and Davos trips as shutdown drags on ZAR steady after repo rate decision Local bourse weakens after retail stocks fall
Fixed Income Daily: Bond market and currency metrics for African capital markets
Uganda – Core inflation remains low, and recent inflation releases have surprised to the downside. The apex bank has however retained a hawkish bias, maintaining the policy rate at 5% at last month’s...
Daily Africa Insight: An overview of today’s key events and developments
South Africa: MPC outcome in line with expectations. Sudan: Will the Revolution of the Hungry be the end for Bashir.
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Success of the strike in #Tunisia puts the UGTT in a strong position as negotiations continue. UGTT demanding a 15% rise in wage bill, government proposed 7% in line with inflation. IMF projects a 9.9% rise, giving the government some room, but this does not include new recruits.
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#DRC The power vacuum resulting from the election (and which persists owing to the dispute) is the context for the terrible massacre in Yumbi in mid-December, which is only hitting headlines now. It is the worst massacre in the Congo in years.
#Mozambique’s disinflation trend continued in December as consumer price inflation fell further to 3.5% y-o-y. Last year’s inflation environment was characterised by food prices remaining flat, whilst the cost of transport rised sharply. We expect the opposite to occur this year.
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