Sub-Sahara Bonds’ Reluctant Candidates
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Despite the launch of tracking indices and donor and legislative authorization, new African sovereign external debt issuers remain on the ...
South Africa’s Mooted Mandela Moment
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South African shares pared their double-digit gain on anxiety over a weekend “nationally important” announcement inviting rumors of new capital ...
Kenya’s Pesky Performance Indictments
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Kenyan shares seeking to break from 2011’s abysmal African frontier showing were again trounced by Hague tribunal indictments of Finance ...
Nigeria’s Subsiding Subsidy Subordination
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Nigerian stocks shook off 2011’s lethargy of a near 20 percent MSCI drop as the government proposed elimination of $8 ...
Africa’s Creaky Fragile Poll Apparatus
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Thinly-traded secondary loans for Liberia and the Democratic Republic of Congo were buffeted by disputed presidential elections extending incumbents’ tenure ...
South Africa’s Durban Grievance Airing
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South Africa’s post-Kyoto climate change gathering in Durban reflected a mood of recrimination both between and within developed and developing ...
Cote D’Ivoire’s Default Remedy Dalliance
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Cote d’Ivoire external bonds rose above 50 as the IMF resumed a $600 million credit facility with one-fifth the amount ...
Frontier Africa’s Wilderness Trek Trails
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Sub-Saharan markets continued their drag on the MSCI Frontier Index with Kenya off 40 percent in dollar terms at the ...
South Africa’s Dangling Discipline Dodges
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South African shares doubled yearly losses to 25 percent on slumping growth and fiscal signals and the “trial” of firebrand ...
East Africa’s Ignited Inflation Sparks
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The Kenyan shilling fell to a record low 90/dollar as food prices jumped 20 percent and Ugandan regime opponents and ...