In the commodity space, oil prices are steady this morning after continuing with their new year rally yesterday. Note, the World Bank forecasts that crude oil prices will average $74 per barrel in 2022 as oil demand strengthens and reaches pre-pandem...

We published our end-of-year trilogy last week (2021 review, 2022 Outlook and top picks for next year). Argentina and Ukraine – We were right to be cautious on both of these, with a Hold on both coming into this year. Egypt – One of our Top 5 picks h...

Rwanda's Ministry of Health has confirmed at least six cases of the Omicron variant of Covid in the country. Compared with other East African countries, Rwanda has been quick to respond to rising cases and new variants throughout the pandemic. It has...

Hawks will be on the edge of their seats as they wait to see if the FOMC follows through with its recent communication and accelerates the pace of its taper and normalising policy. As a result, the monetary policy differential between the US and othe...

Although the USD has pulled off its intra-week highs, it will remain well supported by the strong economic data that will promote speculation that the Fed needs to bring forward the timing of a rate hike. Meanwhile, August worker remittances came in ...

The USD is surging at the moment, with investors focusing on the inflation data earlier this week that surprised to the topside. Ethiopia: Following the ratings downgrade from S&P, the third one since January, Finance Minister Eyob Tekalign said that...