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iCAPITAL Registers ETB 82.38 Billion Capital and 141.07 Million Shares as Enat Bank Receives ECMA Approval
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ECMA Grants Investment Bank License to Deloitte Ethiopia, Bringing Total to Nine
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EconomyNBE Warns Public Against Illegal Hawala and Unauthorized Remittance Operators
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Capital MarketECMA Registers 6.79 Million Enat Bank Shares
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EconomyNBE Allocates $125 Million in Foreign Exchange Auction at 160.2070 Birr/USD
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Banking & FinanceTsedey Bank, Eagle Lion Team Up to Digitize Ethiopia’s Agricultural Input Distribution
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Paying More, Getting Less: The Hidden Inflation Squeezing Ethiopian Consumers
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BusinessEthiopia Eyes Stake in Dangote’s Planned $17 Billion Kenya Refinery
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Monday Breakfast Stories
The week in Ethiopian markets, over buna.
The Rationing Season
Somebody has to go without. That is the sentence underneath almost every story this week. The state power producer looked at the water coming into its dams, decided a dry period was on the way, and cut its single largest revenue-generating customer by 75 percent before the shortage arrived. The central bank sold
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The Cost of Holding the Line
There is a number under almost every story this week, and it is a price. The central bank sold half a billion dollars in a single sitting to pull the birr back from a record low, and the market read the size, not the signal. Inflation answered with 15.3 percent. Official creditors blessed
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The Narrow Top
Here is the week in one number. Ten companies paid 254.44 billion birr in tax last fiscal year. That is 48.71 percent of everything Ethiopia’s Large Taxpayers Branch Office collected, from ten names out of 746 on its books. Ethio Telecom alone paid more than every bank and insurance company in the country
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Economy
NBE Warns Public Against Illegal Hawala and Unauthorized Remittance Operators
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Capital Market
ECMA Registers 6.79 Million Enat Bank Shares
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Economy
NBE Allocates $125 Million in Foreign Exchange Auction at 160.2070 Birr/USD
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Banking & Finance
Tsedey Bank, Eagle Lion Team Up to Digitize Ethiopia’s Agricultural Input Distribution
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Deep Dive
Longer reads on the forces behind the numbers.
- Deep Dive6 min readAre Ethiopians Unwilling to Work Or Is Work Unwilling to Pay?Somewhere along the way, Ethiopia’s stalled job market became a story about laziness. It’s a familiar narrative, usually aimed at the young and the unemployed. And repeated so often it started to sound intuitive, but does Ethiopia’s labour market actually support it? In this article we’re finding out. The theory goes something like this: theRead
- Deep Dive10 min readThe Free Labor Economy In EthiopiaInside Ethiopia’s internship machine, where a generation works for nothing, learns even less, and the bill lands on everyone. The minibus from Ayat to Bole costs more than 30 birr each way. Hiwot, a composite of the many graduates who tell some version of this story, pays it twice a day, five days a week,Read
- Deep Dive7 min readThe Role of Capital Markets in Ethiopia’s Economic TransformationFor the past five decades, banks have been a one-stop shop for Ethiopian businesses to get financing. Before this, Ethiopia had a short-lived stock market in the 1960s and early 1970s called the Share Dealing Group, which operated under the imperial regime. Following the Derg regime, the financial system that followed consolidated almost entirely aroundRead
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EconomyOfficial Creditors Back Ethiopia’s $1 Billion Bond Restructuring, Raise Warrant Concerns
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BusinessEthiopia Secures Over $340 Million in Export Deals at ‘Export to China’ Forum
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Capital MarketWegagen Capital posts ETB 141m revenue, ETB 46.6m pre-tax profit in first full year
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