Daily Fixed Income Reports
Insight into key economic and political events which could influence trading in African debt markets, with notification of upcoming events.
African debt markets are attracting attention from institutional investors seeking higher yields, particularly in infrastructure bonds. According to the World Bank, the cost of addressing Africa’s infrastructure needs is around $93 billion a year, only a fraction of which can be funded domestically by governments constrained by fiscal and current account deficits or small and illiquid domestic debt markets.
Our Daily Fixed Income Reports monitor and analyse economic and political events within the past 24 hours that might influence African debt markets, with alerts for upcoming events. Each daily alert follows the same structure of evaluating an event, explaining why it is important and analysing its potential impact: - Developments affecting sovereign debt markets - Government auctions - Forex market developments - The week ahead