The following company announcements, scheduled economic indicators, debt and currency market
moves and political events may affect African markets on Thursday.
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EVENTS:
*Jailed Tanzanian journalist to appear in court; 10 past
hearings were postponed
GLOBAL MARKETS
Asian shares kicked off the new decade higher on Thursday,
after global stocks ended the previous one at record highs,
and buoyed by Chinese markets after Beijing eased monetary
policy to support slowing growth. MKTS/GLOB
WORLD OIL PRICES
Oil prices kicked off the new year higher on Thursday as
warming trade relations between the United States and China
eased demand concerns, while rising tensions in the Middle
East fuelled worries about supply. O/R
EMERGING MARKETS
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SOUTH AFRICA MARKETS
South Africa's rand rose on Tuesday, holding on to gains
from previous sessions triggered by a global investor hunt
for high yields and optimism over a breakthrough in trade
standoff between China and the United States. MARKETS
The Kenyan shilling KES= held steady on Tuesday on the
back of inflows of hard currency from remittances by Kenyan
workers abroad, traders said. MARKETS
The Ugandan shilling UGX= was unchanged on Tuesday amid
some remittance flows from Ugandans working abroad and
commodity exporters. CORRUPTION
Angola has frozen the assets of Isabel dos Santos, the
billionaire daughter of the country's previous leader, in a
sign that President João Lourenço is taking a tougher line
against the former first family. BISSAU ELECTION
Former prime minister and ex-army general Umaro Cissoko
Embalo has won Guinea-Bissau's presidential vote, the
electoral commission said on Wednesday, but his opponent
complained of fraud and vowed to contest the result in
court. BLAST
As wounded men screaming for their mothers were brought into
a Mogadishu hospital after a huge truck bomb on Saturday,
doctors fought to save eight month-old Mohammed Hassan,
whose mother was already dead. the latest precious metals report click on GOL/
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