Finance | - Part 8

Egypt making good progress in IMF programme, Lagarde says

CAIRO (Capital Markets in Africa) – Egypt is making good progress in its $12 billion loan programme with the International Monetary Fund and its currency may be stabilising after plunging to record lows, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde said on Monday. In November, Cairo agreed on the three-year loan deal with IMF, which involved tough economic reforms, such as cutting its budget deficit and floating the Egyptian pound. The currency plunged as low as around 19.50…

Nigeria aims to present reform plan in Feb for $1 bln World Bank loan

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Nigeria wants to borrow at least $1 billion from the World Bank to help haul it out of recession and plans to present the required economic reform proposals to the lender this month, officials and diplomats told Reuters. The oil producer, which has been hit hard by a sharp fall in crude prices since 2014, has been in talks with the Washington-based lender for a year to secure a…

Nigeria sells US$1 billion to Eurobond Market Despite Investors’ Naira Concern

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Nigeria returned to international capital markets for the first time since 2013 and sold US$1 billion of 15-year bonds at 7.875 percent, which is below the initial target of about 8.5 percent. The US$ 1 billion Eurobond was approved by the Nigeria’s parliament to help finance its budget deficit -mainly for capital expenditures. Nigeria’s economic growth and U.S. dollar earnings are likely to gradually improve in 2017, supported by…

UAE’s Dana Gas freezes Egypt investments over debts

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CAIRO (Capital Markets in Africa) – Dana Gas will not make new investments in Egypt because of delays in obtaining payments owed to it there, the chief executive of the United Arab Emirates company said. Political and economic turbulence in Egypt and Iraqi Kurdistan mean Dana has struggled to secure revenues in either country, once again hitting its profit on Thursday. Dana posted a $7 million net profit in the three months to Dec. 31,…

Botswana gets offer for struggling BCL mines

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GABORONE (Capital Markets in Africa) – Botswana’s high court agreed on Tuesday to delay the provisional liquidation of state-owned BCL Mine Ltd after lawyers representing the liquidator KPMG said they had received an offer to buy its mothballed mines, which produce copper and nickel. While the lawyers declined to name the company making the offer, a source close to the process told Reuters a company from the United Arab Emirates had put forward an offer…

IsDB pledges to support the growth of private sector in Guinea

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Conakry (Capital Markets in Africa) – The Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) has pledged to support the growth of the private sector in the Republic of Guinea. The statement was made by the IsDB Vice President (Sector Operations), Dr. Mansur Muhtar at the opening ceremony of the Private Sector Forum jointly organized by the Government of Guinea and IsDB Group. The Prime Minister of Guinea, Mr. Mamady Youla chaired the Forum in the capital Conakry. The…

Record Egypt-Tied Note Issuance Highlights IMF Loan Cheer

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CAIRO (Capital Markets in Africa) – Investors are rushing back to structured notes tied to Egypt following a currency float and an International Monetary Fund loan last quarter, six years after a revolution that had scared them off. Citigroup Inc. issued all four of the recorded credit-linked notes this month raising a total of 2.3 billion Egyptian pounds ($121 million), the most for a single month on record, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The biggest was…

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