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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside Africa |
“Language is a virus from outer space” ― William S. Burroughs
“Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. ” ― William S. Burroughs
“Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.” ― William S. Burroughs
“Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.” ― William S. Burroughs
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'Not fit to lead': letter attacking Xi Jinping sparks panic in Beijing Law & Politics |
It wasn’t a very long letter - the equivalent of about 920 words in English and it appeared only briefly on a Chinese website.
But its content was potentially incendiary. It called for president Xi Jinping to resign.
Many China watchers initially dismissed it as a prank, as opposed to a sign of real dissension within the ruling Communist party.
But only a few weeks later, the mysterious letter has taken on a life of its own – largely because of the government’s outsized reaction to it.
State security agents have detained more than two dozen people thought linked to the letter’s distribution. They scrubbed the Chinese internet of all search terms related to it. They have also detained and harassed family members of exiled Chinese journalist who have commented on the letter, and even tried to get one of those commentaries retracted by a German newspaper.
Party leaders apparently see the letter as a real threat, some China experts have concluded, and so they have launched a manhunt to determine how it became an internet sensation.
“In the beginning this letter didn’t seem like much,” said Bill Bishop, author of the Sinocism newsletter, which tracks Chinese politics.
“But now, given the reaction, it has become much more important. They are going after multiple people, in China and now outside of China.”
Conclusions
The Signal is in the Reaction.
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Obama and Erdoğan are supposed to meet today in Washington. Law & Politics |
Let’s hope President Obama skips the diplomatic language and goes straight to the point: that any leader who jails journalists—and arms Al Qaeda and bombs the Kurds and jails his opponents—is no friend of the United States.
Conclusions
Other than Repression and more repression, I am no longer sure what Erdogan is offering. And as you know I give full credence to Seymour Hersh's story about the CW Trip-Wire that Erdogan laid for President Obama in Syria.
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Chaos Outside of Turkish President Erdogan's Washington Speech FP Law & Politics |
A planned speech by the controversial Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan descended into violence and chaos Thursday, with one journalist physically removed from the event site by Turkish security personnel, another kicked by a guard, and a third — a woman — thrown to the sidewalk in front of a Washington think tank where he was to speak.
A small group of protesters gathered across the street from the Brookings Institute near Dupont Circle in Washington, with one holding a large sign reading “Erdogan: War Criminal On The Loose,” while another used a megaphone to chant that he was a “baby-killer.”
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Is Donald Trump Self-Destructing? Law & Politics |
This reaction didn’t just make Trump look deluded, sexist, and cowardly—it provided his political enemies with more ammunition to use against him.
If Trump wasn’t already in enough trouble with female voters—last week, an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll found that forty-seven per cent of Republican women couldn’t imagine voting for him—he made things even worse on Wednesday, when he told MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, during a town-hall meeting in Wisconsin, that women who seek abortions should be subject to “some form of punishment.”
After media outlets seized on those incendiary words, Trump issued a written statement recanting them. It said that if Congress enacted a ban on abortion, a policy that Trump now supports, “the doctor or any other person performing this illegal act upon a woman would be held legally responsible, not the woman. The woman is a victim in this case as is the life in her womb.”
This rapid about-face only served to highlight the fact that Trump had again presented his opponents with a gift. “Of course we shouldn’t be talking about punishing women; we should affirm their dignity and the incredible gift they have to bring life into the world,” Ted Cruz said. John Kasich made similar comments. Hillary Clinton described Trump’s initial remarks as “horrific and telling.”
Conclusions
The Issue for Trump is like it has been for all the other Republican Hard-Core Re-iterations of the Party from Newt Gingrich to the Tea Party. You can swing the steering wheel sharp right but to win the Electiob you have to consider the new Demographic Make-Up of the US something which President @BarackObama understood. So even if Trump gets the Republican Nomination, its going to be very hard to carry the Country. More than anything he scores very poorly with Women.
Of course, all Bets are off if the US sees a Brussels type Attack in the run-Up to the Election.
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The Oppenheimer Blue diamond, which carries an estimate of $38 million to $45 million. Source: Christie's Commodities |
The largest fancy vivid blue diamond ever offered at auction is set to go on sale on May 18 at Christie’s in Geneva. The 14.62-carat stone, the "Oppenheimer Blue," is named after its previous owner, Sir Philip Oppenheimer, whose family controlled De Beers for 80 years before selling its 40 percent stake to Anglo American Plc for $5.1 billion in 2012. The diamond, whose “fancy vivid” designation rates it the highest and clearest saturation color blue possible, is estimated to sell for $38 million to $45 million.
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+20. Spot the difference Venezuela today looks like Zimbabwe 15 years ago Apr 2nd 2016 | CARACAS | From the print edition Economist Emerging Markets |
VISITING a supermarket in Venezuela is like entering Monty Python’s cheese-shop sketch. “Do you have any milk?” The shop assistant shakes her head. Sugar? No. Coffee? No. Soap? No. Cornflour? No. Cooking oil? No. Do you in fact have any of the products that the government deems so essential that it fixes their prices at less than what it costs to make them? No.
This is hard cheese for the masses queuing outside in the hope that a truck carrying something, anything, will arrive. Yesenia, a middle-aged lady from a village near Caracas, got up at midnight, rode a bus to the capital, started queuing at 3am and is still there at 10am. “It’s bad, standing here in the sun. I’ve had no breakfast, and no water.” Why does she think there are such severe shortages? “Bad administration.”
That is putting it mildly. The Venezuelan government spends like Father Christmas after too much eggnog, subsidising everything from rural homes to rice. It cannot pay its bills, especially since the oil price collapsed, so it prints money.
Cash machines in Caracas spit out crisp new bills with consecutive serial numbers. The last time your correspondent saw such a thing was in Zimbabwe in the early 2000s. The IMF predicts that inflation will be 720% in Venezuela this year, a figure Zimbabwe hit in 2006. By 2008 Zimbabwe was racked by hyperinflation so crippling that beggars who were offered billion-Zimbabwe-dollar bills would frown and reject them (see chart).
For Venezuela, the lesson is plain. If it fails to pick a better model than Mugabenomics, things will only get worse. The Venezuelan opposition are keen to change course. Mr Maduro’s cluelessness gives them a chance. He says that he is tackling shortages by raising his own chickens—and so should everyone else.
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MUGABE: ZIMBABWE STILL LOVES ME Newsweek Africa |
“You just go to Zimbabwe now and ask the people whether I should stand down. They will be angry with you,” said Mugabe, according to Zimbabwe’s state-owned Herald newspaper.
During Mugabe’s visit, which ends on Thursday, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged a 600 million yen ($5.3 million) grant to help fund a road project in Zimbabwe and hailed Mugabe as an “iconic leader.” The Zimbabwean head of state, however, appeared to doze off while standing shoulder to shoulder with Abe at a press conference on Tuesday.
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Congo Opposition Chooses Katumbi as Presidential Candidate Africa |
Congo scheduled to hold presidential elections in November Katumbi seen as powerful challenger to incumbent president
A leading opposition group in the Democratic Republic of Congo named Moise Katumbi, a former provincial governor, as its candidate for president in elections scheduled for November.
The so-called G7 announced Katumbi’s candidacy after a meeting of the party’s political bureau in the capital, Kinshasa, on Wednesday. Katumbi wasn’t immediately available when Bloomberg called him seeking comment.
“The G7 voted unanimously for Moise Katumbi to be its candidate for president,” Olivier Kamitatu, a leader of the G7, said in a post on his Twitter account.
Conclusions
The Likelihood of this being a smooth Process is surely very low.
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Businessman and Dictator Face Off as Congo Lurches Toward Abyss New York Times Africa |
Sitting in his palatial living room amid lots of marble and white leather, Moïse Katumbi gives off an unmistakable air of being content with his place in the world.
A former governor in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s influential Katanga region and a flamboyantly successful tycoon, Mr. Katumbi has money, power, the adoration of the masses, solid political skills and a bit of an aura. He even has his own professional soccer team, the Bulldozers.
Of 80 million Congolese, analysts say, Mr. Katumbi is best positioned to be Congo’s next president if the election is fair and if the current president, who faces term limits, steps down this year.
But those are two big ifs.
Once again, Congo is lurching toward a political abyss, and Mr. Katumbi will be a crucial figure in what happens next.
Congo’s next election is supposed to be in November, and its Constitution requires that President Joseph Kabila leave office. But as Mr. Kabila’s counterparts across the continent have shown, to varying degrees of success or chaos, constitutions can be tinkered with or simply ignored.
In Congo, with dozens of armed groups and a long history of bloodshed, any serious instability could cause the country to explode.
Mr. Katumbi said that he had tried to persuade Mr. Kabila to step down, but that it was impossible to tell what Mr. Kabila was thinking.
“You know the president don’t talk a lot,” he said.
But sometimes his smile is a little tight. He says that Mr. Kabila’s men recently grounded his private jet, and that security agents followed his children to school.
He insists that he is not scared — “I’m scared only about God.” But he is facing a government, an army and a security apparatus that is hardening around Mr. Kabila, jailing dissenters and killing protesters.
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Night of the generals 1ST APRIL 2016 Increasing surveillance of ANC dissidents and burglaries of journalists and activists point to paranoia at the top @Africa_Conf Africa |
A veteran of the pre-liberation African National Congress armed wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK, Spear of the Nation), General Siphiwe 'Gebuza' Nyanda doesn't scare easily. Yet when a well armed hijacker decided on 23 March to make off with his Porsche luxury car, he didn't offer any resistance. Nyanda survived without a scratch and the car was found without serious damage a few hours later. Another random hijacking? Perhaps, but it has emerged that Nyanda is the spokesman for a group known as Senior Commanders and Commissars of the ANC's former military wing.
Just days before the attack, this group published a memorandum highly critical of President Jacob Zuma's style of government (AC Vol 57 No 6, Gordhan and Zuma slug it out). It ran through the familiar charge sheet: December's damaging and arbitrary sacking of Nhlanhla Nene as Finance Minister; the orchestrated harassment of current and previous Finance Minister Pravin Gordhanby the Hawks, the specialist police unit. Then the group declared its support for Mcebisi Jonas, who said that the Gupta family had offered him the post of Finance Minister before Zuma sacked Nene (AC Vol 55 No 11, A loyalist cabinet and Vol 57 No 4, Zupta Inc.).
Then came the coup de grâce which removed any ambiguity about the group's intentions. The memo concluded, '…in the light of the many challenges facing the ANC and the state, we further call for the leadership of the ANC to urgently convene a special National Conference.' In today's febrile political climate, the idea of a special ANC conference would have but one aim: to sack Zuma from the presidency, a rerun of the recall of ex-President Thabo Mbeki at the Polokwane National Elective Conference of 2007.
'Senior ANC members are so paranoid that Number One [Zuma] is listening to them that they prefer not to have conversations on their cell phones,' said a former intelligence officer
Politicians across the political divide were shocked by the 2014 appointment of Mahlobo, an unknown civil servant from Mpumalanga who was parachuted in to head the powerful SSA and who, says the SSA website, 'was sent by the ANC to China for Political Education'. In the past, senior ANC National Executive members, such as Lindiwe Sisulu and Ronnie Kasrils, held the portfolio. Mahlobo worked under Kasrils as a Director at the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry from 2002 until Kasrils left in 2004, and for two years thereafter. He is now seen as one of Zuma's closest lieutenants and staunch defenders on the National Executive Committee and shielding Zuma from the Nkandla homestead fiasco. Mhlobo has been vocal about the ANC leadership battle.
In 2015, Mahlobo came under fire for jamming mobile telephone and internet services during the opening of Parliament (AC Vol 56 No 4, A rowdy state of the nation). He travels abroad regularly with Zuma and was one of the few ministers to accompany him to Russia in 2014 to meet President Vladimir Putin. Those meetings are understood to have included discussions about Russia's multi-billion dollar bids for contracts to expand South Africa's nuclear power industry, an issue of great sensitivity to international intelligence agencies.
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08-FEB-2016 Meanwhile Nigeria, the biggest economy in SSA, will surely contract in 2016 Africa |
Meanwhile Nigeria, the biggest economy in SSA, will surely contract in 2016 and not least because its president is determined not to devalue the naira. The curve of history [from Soros skinning the Bank of England in 1992, to the Mexican peso crisis in 1994, to the Thai baht crisis in 1998 and many more too numerous to men- tion] confirm that maintaining an artificial foreign exchange rate is a fool’s errand and eventually carries the risk that the breakdown spirals out of control and can become seriously disorderly. The official naira rate is just below 200 to the dollar but no one is holding any store by that price and that’s why absolutely no one is putting any more money in Nigeria because they all know when the haircut is finally imposed it’s going to be a big one. I find it just extraordinary that such a brilliant president would risk it all on a bet on a single number in a game of roulette. Those are the odds.
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Uganda crude oil pipeline should go the Tanga way, says @Total boss Africa |
Total E&P Uganda has affirmed its commitment to construct the $4 billion crude oil pipeline through Tanga despite ongoing talks between Kenya and Uganda to have it pass through here.
The company’s general manager Adewale Fayemi said at the two-day East Africa Oil and Gas conference in Tanzania.
“As a company, our position remains that we are going through Tanga. I understand there are issues being discussed but our position remains the same,” Fayemi said.
He said all available options have been carefully considered and the firm is more interested in the Tanga route, which will be cheaper for oil production.
Conclusions
Any which way you cut it, this is a Big Hit for Kenya's Ambitions.
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President Uhuru Kenyatta could not make his State of the Nation Address in Parliament for a full 30 minutes Thursday Kenyan Economy |
President Uhuru Kenyatta could not make his State of the Nation Address in Parliament for a full 30 minutes Thursday as Orange Democratic Movement MPs held a noisy protest in the chamber.
The MPs blew whistles, shouted and waved placards, ignoring orders from Speaker Justin Muturi to behave with decorum.
Some had to be dragged out shouting and resisting by parliamentary orderlies.
Drama started the minute the President stood to make his speech. About a dozen MPs jumped to their feet, blew whistles and removed placards from their pockets.
Conclusions
CORD have obviously watched the EFF and @Julius_S_Malema 's intervention at the Time of SA President Zuma's State of the union.See Below
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Jubilee Insurance Co. reports FY PAT 2015 +0.562% Earnings Kenyan Economy |
Par Value: 5/- Closing Price: 473.00 Total Shares Issued: 59895000.00 Market Capitalization: 28,330,335,000 EPS: 42.7 PE: 11.077
FY Gross written premium 30.158675b vs. 29.469000b +2.340% FY Gross earned premium 23.029933b vs. 24.782043b -7.070% FY Net insurance premium revenue 14.876157b vs. 16.331221b -8.910% FY Other revenue 6.821757b vs. 8.044664b -15.201% FY Total income 21.697914b vs. 24.375885b -10.986% FY Net insurance benefits and claims [11.565275b] vs. [15.870479b] -27.127% FY Total expenses and commissions [7.004661b] vs. [5.987944b] +16.979% FY Results of operating activities 3.127988b vs. 2.517462b +24.252% FY Net finance cost [34.861m] vs. [49.745m] -29.921% FY Share of associates 1.052012b vs. 1.481568b -28.993% FY Group profit before tax 4.145139b vs. 3.949285b +4.959% FY Net profit 3.121093b vs. 3.103653b +0.562% FY Other comprehensive income for the year [154.569m] vs. 236.725m -165.295% FY Total comprehensive income 2.966524b vs. 3.340378b -11.192% EPS 42.7 vs. 43.7 -2.288% Total equity 20.381207b vs. 16.479031b +23.680% Total assets 82.378010b vs. 74.505374b +10.567% FY Investment Assets 56.245763b versus 48.636015b +15.64% Final Dividend 7.50 a share +1.00 Interim Dividend
Company Commentary
FY PBT +5.00% Short Term Business +15% Individual Life business +14% Medical Business +32%
Conclusions
Headline [Net Insurance premium] Revenue -8.91%. FY Total Income -10.986% Net Insurance Claims -27.127% which is a commendable outcome. Jubilee holds much more of their Portfolio in unlisted Securities than in the Listed Markets and hence can smooth Earnings more effectively. Its a well managed Franchise and on a Trailing PE of 11.oo just below F/V.
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East Africa's used- clothes trade comes under fire Economist Kenyan Economy |
By 2019 the EAC wants to outlaw imports of second-hand clothes. The idea is that ending the trade in old clothes—mostly donated by their former owners in rich countries—will help boost local manufacturing. On March 10th Uhuru Kenyatta, Kenya’s president, met market traders upset by the idea, and defended the need for “Kenyan manufactured apparel”. Yet the ban seems sure to fail.
Mitumba trading is a big employer for Kenyans, most of whom work in the informal labour market. By one estimate, there are 65,000 traders in Gikomba alone. Imports have increased massively over the past two decades. In 2015, according to UN data, Kenya imported about 18,000 tonnes of clothing from Britain alone. Whole-salers buy bundles for anything up to 10,000 shillings (about $100), and sort the contents by type and quality. Retail traders then come and source stock for their own stalls elsewhere in the city, to be sold on to ordinary Kenyans.
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Mauritius sells Rawat's 20/3% stake to existing Britam shareholders Kenyan Economy |
The Mauritius Government has agreed to sell the 20.3% percent stake in Kenya’s diversified financial services company, Britam to existing shareholders after seizing it from a disgraced tycoon,Dawood Rawat, it said on Thursday.
The Indian Ocean island seized the assets of Dawood Rawat, a Mauritius citizen, in April 2015 after accusing him of running a Ponzi-like scheme through a Mauritian insurer.
Minister for Financial Services Sudarshan Bhadain told parliament that an offer from another operator “could not go through because the existing shareholders in Kenya were not willing to allow third parties into their company.”
“They came to Mauritius and they said to us that they are willing to buy those shares themselves, this has been done,” Bhadain said in comments posted on Mauritius parliament’s website.
Few weeks ago, Britam CEO Mr Benson Wairegi had urged the local investors to take up Rawat’s stake in the firm,Read story here Britam CEO Benson Wairegi urges local investors to buy Rawat’s 20.3% stake
A memorandum of understanding has been signed between both parties and the minister said the “money is going to hit the bank account this week and then there is a second part which is going to be paid by April 30.”
@BRITAM_EA share price data here -17.69% 2016 http://www.rich.co.ke/rcdata/company.php?i=NTk%3D
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N.S.E Today |
The Stock Market was not nearly as dramatic as events in the Parliament yesterday. CORD have obviously watched the EFF and @Julius_S_Malema 's intervention at the Time of SA President Zuma's State of the Union.See Below
Opposition disrupts Zuma's State of the Union speech Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-08im1mIxIQ
However, I think the President was appraised of the possibility of such a disruption and that whilst it was a very effective, asymmetric response in SA [precisely because the @SAPresident is rogue] looked like poorly conceived Theatre yesterday. And it reminded me of the moment when the Opposition Leader met with the Foreign Correspondents Association of East Africa and impugned the bona fides of the Federal Reserve Bank and that was a Buy Signal for the Eurobond because at that moment International Investors realised it was Theatre. The Eurobond rallied in a straight line from a Price of 85.00 back to 95.00, since that date.
The Nairobi All Share eased back 0.41 points to close at 147.03. The Nairobi NSE20 rose 14.29 points to close at 3996.38 and just below the 4,000 level. Equity turnover was lackadaisical at 291.987m.
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N.S.E Equities - Commercial & Services |
Safaricom eased back 0.3% to close at 16.85 and traded 6.052m shares. Safaricom targets 22.50 in 2016 in my opinion a +33.53% Uplift and that does not include dividends.
Kenya Airways announced that it was set to send home up to 600 employees beginning next month as part of wide cost-cutting measures expected to reduce payroll by about Sh2 billion annually. KQ’s workforce stood at 3,973 as at March last year. Staff cost has grown by 51 per cent in the past five years to Sh16.96 billion for the year ended March 2015 compared to Sh11.2 billion in 2011. The airline in July last year hired American consultancy McKinsey to help restructure its operations. Kenya Airways unchanged at 4.50 and traded 1.126m shares. Buyers are absorbing lines of stock at 4.50.
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N.S.E Equities - Finance & Investment |
Standard Chartered Bank surged +6.92% to close at a Fresh 2016 High of 247.00 and traded 17,300 shares. I wrote this when I sighted the Full Year Earnings Release
''I think This Set of Earnings is case of putting everything into it Kitchen sink and all..I expect a much stronger FY 2016 especially because I think Stan Chart have seriously benefited from the flight to quality''
StanChart has soared +23.5% since March and is +26.66% Year To Date which makes Lamin Manjang a Bull Outlier at the Nairobi Securities Exchange in 2016.
Kenya Commercial bank firmed +0.6% to close at 41.75 and traded 763,800 shares. KCB has more than 3 Buyers for every Seller and is girding itself for a move higher.
Barclays Bank fell 2.23% to close at a 5 Year Low of 10.95 and closed out the session trading session lows of 10.80 -3.57%. Barclays Bank has slumped -19.485% in 2016. Investors are now fretting about Franchise Erosion. High Frequency Data like Social Media is painting an image of an Organisation struggling to keep it together.Investors are probably factoring in a slow process around finding a new shareholder and prepared to stop loss rather than to wait.
Barclays Bank Kenya share price data here -19.485% in 2016 http://www.rich.co.ke/rcdata/company.php?i=MTQ%3D
CfC Stanbic Bank Thursday signed a Sh13.5 billion two-tranche term loan. The transaction was arranged by 14 key institutions including Emirates NBD Capital Limited (ENBD) and Mashreqbank PSC. CFC StanBic closed unchanged at 94.00 and is +13.939% in 2016.
National Bank which released its FY 2015 Earnings at Midnight Wednesday night, closed at the lowest Level since May 2005. National Bank slumped -9.27% to close at 11.75 and traded 3,100 shares. At the Finish, There were No Buyers showing on the Board only Sellers. National Bank has retreated -25.39% Year To Date and the Demand/Supply dynamic is predicting further falls. The Clue to the debacle was contained in the H1 2015 Earnings and picked up by Sunil Sanger Esquire who tweeted the following;
@Sang252 @alykhansatchu The rise in profits in Q2 is from writing back NPL provisions. Ratio of Provisions to NPLs at 11.2% v 32.5% in Q1. @Sang252 @alykhansatchu Banking industry's ratio of Provisions to NPLs is 41.3%. Ratio of 11.2% far below all other listed banks.
What Sunil was pointing out was an epidemic of under-provisioning which evidently has now been corrected in the FY Earnings release.
Jubilee Insurance Co. reported a +0.562% FY 2015 Profit After Tax increase and Headline FY [Net Insurance Premium] Revenue declined -8.910%. FY Net insurance benefits and claims was managed an eye-popping -27.127% lower to [11.565275b] vs. [15.870479b] previously. FY Earnings Per Share declined -2.288% to 42.7 and the Final Dividend is 7.50 a share [+1 shilling which was paid as an Interim Dividend]. Jubilee holds much more of their Portfolio in unlisted Securities than in the Listed Markets and hence can smooth Earnings more effectively. FY Investment Assets expanded +15.64% to 56.245763b. Jubilee spoke to a +15% Short Term Business expansion, +14% Individual Life business +14% and a +32% acceleration in the Medical Business. Jubilee eased -0.42% to close at 471.00 Jubilee is -2.68% in 2016.
The Mauritius Government has agreed to sell the 20.3% percent stake in Britam to existing shareholders after seizing it from a disgraced tycoon,Dawood Rawat, it said on Thursday. The Indian Ocean island seized the assets of Dawood Rawat, a Mauritius citizen, in April 2015 after accusing him of running a Ponzi-like scheme through a Mauritian insurer. Minister for Financial Services Sudarshan Bhadain told parliament that an offer from another operator “could not go through because the existing shareholders in Kenya were not willing to allow third parties into their company.” “They came to Mauritius and they said to us that they are willing to buy those shares themselves, this has been done,” Bhadain said in comments posted on Mauritius parliament’s website. BRITAM EA firmed +1.401% to close at 10.85 and was trading as high as 11.55 +7.94% at the Tape. BRITAM EA remains -16.53% in 2016.
The Nairobi Securities Exchange rallied +3.809% to close at 27.25 and was trading at 28.00 +6.67% at the Finish Line. The NSE is very well supported at these levels and is setting itself for a run through 30.00.
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