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◆ Why emerging market issuers are doing less in dollars ◆ Republic of Congo located between rock and hard place ◆ The GlobalCapital Podcast was brought to you by the numbers 17, 100 and the whole Alphabet
The yield was ultra high but Congo had little room to manoeuvre
Benin showed Islamic issuance is a viable market for sub-Saharan African sovereigns
Observers have questioned why the country is issuing debt at this price
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  • The sharp sell off in emerging market bonds, caused by the severe volatility in US Treasuries on Wednesday, has hit Africa bond markets the hardest. A “perfect storm” has engulfed the continent’s bonds — EM investors alarmed by the Treasuries move, falling oil prices and continued fears around the spread of Ebola combined to smash any remaining resolve left in investors trading in African bonds.
  • Don’t switch off. Ebola may not have hit your P&L yet, but it’s going to, soon, and hard, whatever your job is. And look at the charts. The logic is inexorable: the longer we take to overcome the disease, the worse the cost will be – for the global economy and in human life. This is not about a few percentage points of GDP. Modern civilisation itself is at risk.
  • Côte d’Ivoire has developed a taste for the international capital markets. After a successful $750m Eurobond in July, prime minister and finance minister Daniel Kablan Duncan tells Emerging Markets about his plans to raise $1bn on the international markets
  • The Republic of Tunisia looks set to join the growing number of sovereign borrowers to issue a debut sukuk in 2014, having requested proposals from banks for a five year deal before the end of the year.
  • The Republic of Tunisia looks set to join the growing number of sovereign borrowers to issue a debut sukuk in 2014, having requested proposals from banks for a five year deal before the end of the year.
  • Global investors are looking at southern Africa as the outlook for the region’s economic growth is revised upwards