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Capital MarketAbay Bank Reports Birr 6.22 Billion Profit Before Tax, Up 47.6%
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Monday Breakfast Stories
The week in Ethiopian markets, over buna.
The Fine Print
Pour the buna. This week’s number is eight. That is how many companies the Ethiopian Capital Market Authority registered shares for on a single day, Tuesday, September 30: six banks, two insurers and, for the first time in a while, a petroleum company. Together that is roughly 243 million shares brought inside the regulator’s fence
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☕ Monday Breakfast Stories: Laying Pipe
This week’s number is 660 million. That is how many dollars Ethiopia, Djibouti and Aliko Dangote say they will spend on a fuel pipeline and storage link between the port and the highlands. The foundation stone went down on Thursday. Hold that thought, because the whole week was about pipes.
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☕ 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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Abay Bank Reports Birr 6.22 Billion Profit Before Tax, Up 47.6%
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- Capital Market5 min readEthiopian Securities Exchange Crosses Half a Billion Birr in Weekly Value Traded, but One Stock Did Almost All the WorkThe Ethiopian Securities Exchange (ESX) recorded ETB 510.05 million in equity turnover for the week of September 28 to October 2, 2026, across 525 trades and 215,325 shares in its seven listed securities. The half-billion-birr total is the headline. Underneath it, the week was mostly the story of one stock trading heavily and six tradingRead
- Deep Dive10 min readWhy being poor in Ethiopia costs moreWalk into a mini shop in Addis Ababa and look at the sizes on the shelf. Sugar by the quarter kilo. Quarter kilos of onions. One bread roll. Charcoal by the tin. All of those things exist in bigger, cheaper packs a few kilometres away. What the mini shop is really selling is the rightRead
- Deep Dive6 min readBirr Liquidity Squeeze Lifts Ethiopia’s Interbank Rates Off the Corridor FloorEthiopia’s interbank money market traded 191.3 billion birr in August, but the number that matters is 13.000, the rate banks accepted for two straight weeks before a $500 million central bank dollar sale changed the price of cash. For the first two weeks of August, the weighted average rate in Ethiopia’s local currency interbank moneyRead
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