Author: Marketforces Africa

Ecobank Group (www.Ecobank.com), the leading pan-African banking Group, sponsors the Intra-African Trade Fair 2023 (IATF 2023), the continent’s premier trade and investment event, which is taking place from 9-15 November 2023, in Cairo, Egypt. Theme this year is “Connecting African Markets”.

A Nigerian-owned Fintech company has concluded plans to launch a mobile app to boost the growth of Small and Medium Enterprise through diaspora remittance.

The Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Limited (NLNG), says the company has not increased the price of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG).

The African Development Bank (AfDB) President, Dr Akinwumi Adesina, says the highway to wealth on the continent is from the export of value-added agricultural products.

Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), the continent’s leading infrastructure financier and solutions provider, today announced its support to the Arab Republic of Egypt as a Re-Guarantor on a private placement offering of JPY 75 billion, 5-year, Samurai bonds.

Oil prices traded above $80 per barrel early on Thursday, recovering from market pressures.  The oil market came under further pressure yesterday with sentiment turning increasingly negative.

Morocco’s King Mohammed VI opened the 2023 Africa Investment Forum Market Days on Wednesday with a call for Africans to work together to attract the levels of private investment needed to drive the continent’s inclusive development.

The House of Representatives has commenced its legislative examination of the 2024-2026 Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and Fiscal Strategy Paper (FSP), submitted by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for approval.

The average yield on Nigerian Treasury bills slid 7 basis points (bps) to settle at 14.31% as a bull surface in the secondary market for government short-term borrowing instruments.

The exchange rates weakened across the currency markets on Wednesday as demand for the US dollar accelerated above the total market supply.