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The week in Ethiopian markets, over buna.
☕ Monday Breakfast Stories: Open Books
This week’s number is 21. That is how many years Sheraton Addis went without a profit, according to MIDROC’s chief executive. Hold that thought. Dangote opened his refinery to anyone with 10 shares’ worth of naira. The ESX cleared 11 companies to go public. And Wegagen, our first listed company,
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Enough Dollars
, and melkam addis amet. Here is the week in one number. On Wednesday the National Bank of Ethiopia put USD 125 million in front of the commercial banks. The banks asked for 120. Four weeks earlier, at the 25th auction, those same banks bid USD 470.17 million for USD 125 million and nineteen
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What Got Paid, What Got Built
Two numbers frame this week, and they are almost the same size. The first is 126.9 billion birr. That is what Ethio telecom’s plan puts on the table for the 2026/27 fiscal year: 83.8 billion in direct and indirect taxes, and 43.1 billion in dividends. The tax goes to the treasury. The dividend
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