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The week in Ethiopian markets, over buna.
☕ Monday Breakfast Stories: Revalued Economy
Pour the buna. This week’s number is 31.86 trillion. That is the size of Ethiopia’s economy in birr for 2025/26 after rebasing, about $210.7 billion, against the IMF’s earlier estimate of about $127 billion. On paper, the economy is far bigger. Civil service pay has not changed since September 2025, while fuel and food cost
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☕ Monday Breakfast Stories: The Pipeline
Pour the buna. This week’s number is 23. That is how many companies the Ethiopian Securities Exchange has in its pipeline for this fiscal year: 15 for the equity market and 8 for the over-the-counter market. ESX’s Yodit Kassa gave the figure at a webinar on October 28. She also said the exchange is operating
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☕ Monday Breakfast Stories: Four Trillion
Pour the buna. This week’s number is 4 trillion. That is how many birr have now changed hands on Ethiopia’s Interbank Money Market since it opened in October 2024. The jump from 3 trillion to 4 trillion took about four months, the fastest single-trillion increase the market has recorded. The rest of the week moved
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Longer reads on the forces behind the numbers.
- Capital Market19 min readYour Money, Pooled and Protected: The Story Behind Ethiopia’s New Investment Fund Rules1. Your savings, sitting still You put a little money aside every month. It goes into a savings account, and there it sits. Prices climb faster than your interest does, so each year your savings quietly buy a little less. You have heard about the new stock exchange in Addis Ababa, but which company wouldRead
- Deep Dive10 min readThe Impatient Economy: Ethiopia’s New Monetary Framework Meets the Problem of TimePart one looked at how Ethiopia’s new money system is built. This part looks at time. The system works, but slowly, and almost everyone in the economy wants results now. Imagine you need 10,000 birr today, but you will only have it next year. Someone lends it to you, and a year later you payRead
- 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
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