Podcasts
New CMA law passed last year in Kenya with Ewart Salins
Thu, 13 Jan 2011
A new CMA law passed last year, has seen investment banks needing to raise their capital to 250 million shillings from 50 million shillings while brokers were expected to raise theirs to 50 million shillings from 5 million shillings within a 6 month period.
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House Price 2010 Index with Jacques du Toit from Absa Retail Bank
Thu, 13 Jan 2011
Absa has released its house price index and is reporting a rise of 2.4 percent in real house prices last year.
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Presidential primaries being held in Abuja, Nigeria with Opeyemi Agbaje
Thu, 13 Jan 2011
Presidential primaries are being held in Abuja, Nigeria today. The winner is widely expected to win the April polls as the People' Democratic Party has won every presidential election since the return of democracy in 1999.
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Thermal coal supply with Keaton Energy's, Paul Miller
Thu, 13 Jan 2011
Weather related problems in Columbia, South Africa, Russia, Indonesia and the recent flooding in Australia, one of the globes top coal exporters, has put pressure on thermal coal supply pushing the black gold price to a fresh year high of over $143 per ton.
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Investment Potential in Telecoms for 2011
Thu, 13 Jan 2011
Africa's telecoms remain amongst the world's fastest growing. It is also considered a key area of economic development. Investors will be keen to observe current market dynamics and investment potential in 2011
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Prospects for Nigeria’s ICT Sector in 2011
Thu, 13 Jan 2011
Nigeria's ICT sector saw significant investment in 2010. But stakeholders expectations for 2011 will be driven by higher levels of investment, autonomous regulation and an improved business climate amongst others
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Expected Bond Market Reaction to AMCON
Thu, 13 Jan 2011
The formation of AMCON to recapitalise troubled Nigerian banks last year inspired a surge in Nigeria's All Share Index. Whether the markets will have the capacity to absorb bonds issued to fund AMCON's initiative
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Heineken Buys 5 Breweries in Nigeria
Wed, 12 Jan 2011
ABN speaks to Dele Akintola looking at: Heineken Buys 5 Breweries in Nigeria
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Current mining production data and 2011 forecast with Peter Major
Wed, 12 Jan 2011
Last year the Resource 20 sector was one of the worst performing with a return of only 12.28 percent.
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Kenya Power and Lighting prospects as well as the rights issue with CEO, Joseph Njoroge
Wed, 12 Jan 2011
Kenya's sole power distributor, Kenya Power and Lighting recently raised 9.8 billion shillings in a rights issue aimed at upgrading the national grid.
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SACCI Business Confidence Index for December with Neren Rau
Wed, 12 Jan 2011
The SACCI Business Confidence Index was released a little earlier today and showed a 0.6 point improvement in December to 87.6.
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Nigeria Power sector with Professor Barth Nnaji
Wed, 12 Jan 2011
It's election time in Nigeria and with the primaries already taking place tomorrow candidates are campaigning for reforms in many of the sectors.
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Ayo Salami, CIO at Duet Victoire Africa Index
Wed, 12 Jan 2011
Alishia Seckam speaks to Ayo Salami, CIO at Duet Victoire Africa Index looking at index performance.
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Power Struggle in Ivory Coast with Nigeria's Foreign Affairs Minister
Wed, 12 Jan 2011
Diplomats across the 15-nation regional bloc ECOWAS continue to shuttle in and out of Ivory Coast. Their attempts seek to exhaust all available diplomatic options before a military intervention is considered.
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Prospects for Africa’s Oil Producers in 2011
Wed, 12 Jan 2011
Commodity prices continue to surge, promising great returns for Africa's oil producing nations.
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Europe debt woes with Dawie Roodt
Tue, 11 Jan 2011
Analysts are citing the Eurozone's debt woes as being the biggest risk facing South Africa. After Greece and Ireland received EU-IMF bailouts last year to cope with their swollen public debt and deficits, Spain is being pointed out as the next in the debt crisis firing line after Portugal.
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Macro economic picture in Zambia with Leon Myburgh
Tue, 11 Jan 2011
Alishia Seckam spoke to Leon Myburgh, Sub-Saharan Africa Strategist at Citi about the macro economic picture over in Zambia and touched on developments in west Africa.
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Crude oil price in 2011 with Christophe Barret
Tue, 11 Jan 2011
Crude prices reached a 27 month high last week this off the back of expectations that a sustained economic recovery would boost energy demand from both emerging markets and industrialised nations.
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Shoprite holdings first half year update with Syd Vianello
Tue, 11 Jan 2011
South Africa's largest supermarket chain, Shoprite holdings has releases its first half year update with their turnover climbing 9.5 percent to R36.3 billion while December sales grew by 11.9 percent.
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Unilever’s World Menu Report with Eelco Camminga
Tue, 11 Jan 2011
The results of a global research project undertaken in seven countries around the world by Unilever Food Solutions have been released.
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Top business stories
- Kenya's CMC Holdings 2010 pretax profit down 28 pct
-Thu, 13 Jan 2011
- S.Africa economic confidence falls in December
-Thu, 13 Jan 2011
- Shares of S.Africa's Brait drop, may issue equity
-Thu, 13 Jan 2011
- Nigeria's ruling party to decide Jonathan's fate
-Thu, 13 Jan 2011
- Mr Price lifts Q3 sales, bad debts declines
-Thu, 13 Jan 2011
- Northam to resume operations at S.Africa mine
-Thu, 13 Jan 2011
- Rwanda completes new 9.5 MW hydro power plant
-Thu, 13 Jan 2011
- Heavy rains hit S.Africa's coal, maize exports
-Thu, 13 Jan 2011
