Absa Capital News
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South African manufacturing rebounded in April, giving the central bank room to keep lending rates unchanged.
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South African retail-sales growth slowed in March from a year earlier as inflation remained close to the top of the central bank’s target and a 25 percent jobless rate hurt consumer spending.
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Absa Capital said sub-Saharan Africa’s largest economies will expand about 5 percent over the next few years, retaining the region’s position as the world’s fastest growing market behind emerging Asian nations.
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Absa Capital, a unit of South Africa’s Absa Group Ltd. , said it may start the first gold- backed exchange-traded funds in Kenya and Nigeria.
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Absa Group Ltd., the South African lender controlled by Barclays Plc, said it hired Jason Barrass and Theunie Lategan to strengthen its corporate and investment- banking operations.
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Transnet Ltd., South Africa’s state- owned rail and port operator, delayed a sale of dollar bonds after meeting with U.S. and European investors last week because of adverse market conditions, according to Barclays Plc-owned Absa Capital, which advised on the transaction.
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Absa Group Ltd. is tapping the international expertise of its parent Barclays Plc in a bid to scale South Africa’s rankings for mergers and acquisitions.
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Absa Capital, the corporate and investment banking unit of Absa Group Ltd., listed its NewGold Exchange Traded Fund on the Nigeria Stock Exchange today, the bourse said.
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The Mauritian rupee may gain against the dollar this week on optimism the debt crisis in Europe, the island nation’s biggest trading partner, will ease, Absa Capital said.
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Leslie Maasdorp quit as the vice chairman of Absa Capital and Barclays Capital in South Africa to pursue other opportunities outside the company, Johannesburg- based Absa Capital said in an e-mailed statement today.
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