The Markets | - Part 174

Copper Trumps Politics as Investors Take Shine to Zambian Assets

LUSAKA (Capital Markets in Africa) Investors are overlooking Zambia’s political risk and buying the nation’s assets as the price of copper, its biggest export, rises. The yield on Zambia’s $1 billion Eurobonds due April 2024 have fallen 135 basis points this year to 7.55 percent on Wednesday. The southern African nation’s currency has appreciated 12 percent against the dollar in 2017, making the kwacha the continent’s best performer after Mozambique’s metical. Copper prices are at…

Tullow Plans More Ghana Wells Once Maritime-Border Spat Settled

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ACCRA (Capital Markets in Africa) – Tullow Oil Plc plans to drill more wells off Ghana once a ruling on a border dispute is out of the way. Ghana and Ivory Coast disagree over their maritime boundary, frustrating projects to pump oil and gas offshore. In September, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, or Itlos, will rule on the matter, likely clearing the way for an expansion of Tullow’s Tweneboa-Enyenra-Ntomme project, the company said. “We were…

Cell C Is Said to Sell $464 Million of Bonds Amid Reorganization

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JOHANNESBURG (Capital Markets in Africa) – Cell C Pty Ltd. plans to raise as much as $464 million from the sale of two bonds as part of the South African mobile-phone company’s recapitalization that will enable Blue Label Telecoms Ltd. to buy a stake, according to two people familiar with the matter. The country’s third-largest wireless carrier will sell $184 million of three-year senior secured bonds and $280 million of five-year securities, according to the people, who asked…

Kuwait Seeks Energy Venture With Traders From Glencore to Vitol

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – OPEC member Kuwait plans to start trading energy and not just producing it, joining other Middle Eastern producers eager to claw back some of the profit traders like Vitol Group and Glencore Plc earn by buying and selling the region’s oil. State-run Kuwait Petroleum Corp. is in talks with both commodities dealers along with some international oil companies about forming a joint venture to trade refined products as early as next year, a…

Ecobank’s Ivory Coast Unit Is Said to Plan IPO to Fund Expansion

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ABIDJAN (Capital Markets in Africa) – Ecobank Transnational Inc.’s Ivory Coast unit plans to raise 45 billion CFA francs ($79 million) in an initial public offering on West Africa’s regional stock exchange, according to two people familiar with the matter. The share sale will begin by October, pending approval by the regulator, Regional Council for Public Savings and Financial Markets, the people said, asking not to be identified because the information hasn’t been made public. The listing…

Saudis Focus on Oil-Export Curbs as Libya, Nigeria Pump More

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Saudi Arabia promised deep cuts to crude exports next month, emphasizing its commitment to eliminating a global supply glut even as fellow OPEC members Libya and Nigeria were told they are free to keep increasing output. Shipments from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries’ largest producer will be capped at 6.6 million barrels a day in August, 1 million lower than a year earlier, Saudi Arabia’s Energy and Industry Minister Khalid Al-Fali…

Interest Rate Cut May Fuel Rally That Made Ghana Stocks World’s Best

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ACCRA (Capital Markets in Africa) – Ghana’s central bank has likely given the world’s best-performing stocks this quarter a boost. It cut its key interest rate for a third straight meeting on Monday and has now reduced borrowing costs this year by 4.5 percentage points to the lowest level since early 2015. That eases funding costs for companies and boosts the appeal of their shares, according to IC Securities Limited, the country’s biggest broker. “Investors are…

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