{"id":602310,"date":"2019-03-26T09:46:05","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T09:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n<!-- \/1002554\/MJO_Announcement_250X340 -->\n<!-- <div id='div-gpt-ad-1550929497923-0' style='float:right;z-index: 996;height:340px; width:250px;'>\n\n<\/div> -->\n<!-- 22nd March (1month) -->\n<div style=\"float:right;z-index: 996;height:340px; width:2"},"modified":"2019-03-26T09:46:05","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T09:46:05","slug":"what-african-central-bankers-will-discuss-in-the-next-7-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/03\/26\/what-african-central-bankers-will-discuss-in-the-next-7-days\/","title":{"rendered":"What African Central Bankers will discuss in the next 7 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<!-- \/1002554\/MJO_Announcement_250X340 --><br \/>\n<!-- \n\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1550929497923-0' style='float:right;z-index: 996;height:340px; width:250px;'>\n\n<\/div>\n\n --><br \/>\n<!-- 22nd March (1month) --><\/p>\n<div style=\"float:right;z-index: 996;height:340px; width:250px;\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/03\/glauc-new.jpg\" data-pagespeed-url-hash=\"1830378809\" onload=\"pagespeed.CriticalImages.checkImageForCriticality(this);\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"color:black\">Central bankers in Africa\u2019s largest economies will consider very different conditions when deciding on interest rates over the next seven days than they did two months ago, and will mostly come to the same conclusions.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"color:black\">Since the Monetary Policy Committees last met, Ghana\u2019s currency slumped, Nigeria concluded its election, South Africa announced higher-than-expected power-price increases and a Kenyan court set aside a law that caps borrowing costs. All of them are forecast to keep their policy rates unchanged.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/1002554\/Myjoyonline\/mjo-article-leaderboard_mid-1 --><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><iframe data-google-container-id=\"2\" data-load-complete=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"8\" id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/5262\/markets\/article_1\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" name=\"google_ads_iframe_\/5262\/markets\/article_1\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"background-clip:border-box; background-origin:padding-box; background-position-x:0%; background-position-y:0%; background-size:auto; border-image-outset:0; border-image-repeat:stretch; border-image-slice:100%; border-image-source:none; border-image-width:1; font-stretch:100%; background-attachment:scroll; background-image:none; background-repeat:repeat; border-bottom-color:black; border-bottom-style:none; border-bottom-width:0px; border-left-color:black; border-left-style:none; border-left-width:0px; border-right-color:black; border-right-style:none; border-right-width:0px; border-top-color:black; border-top-style:none; border-top-width:0px; color:black; font-family:PublicoText-Roman-Web, Georgia, Cambria, &quot;font-size:18px; font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; line-height:28.08px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; margin-top:0px; padding-bottom:0px; padding-left:0px; padding-right:0px; padding-top:0px; vertical-align:bottom\" title=\"3rd party ad content\" width=\"1\"><\/iframe> Here is a round-up of what these MPCs may focus on in the next seven days:<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Calibri Light&quot;,sans-serif\"><span style=\"color:#1f4d78\"><b><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;\"><span style=\"color:black\">Nigeria, March 26<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;\"><span style=\"color:black\">Monetary policy rate: 14 percent<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;\"><span style=\"color:black\">Inflation rate: 11.3 percent (February)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\">With Nigeria\u2019s election done, the vote-related spending that pushed inflation up from a 30-month low is probably also a thing of the past. The focus turns to boosting an economy that the International Monetary Fund estimates will expand only 2 percent this year. Governor Godwin Emefiele is forecast to hold the key rate at a record high, where it\u2019s been since July 2016, to tackle price growth. Inflation remains above the central bank\u2019s target range of 6 percent to 9 percent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/1002554\/Myjoyonline\/mjo-article-leaderboard_mid-2 --><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"color:black\">The market has \u201calready priced in some measure of monetary easing in the second quarter,\u201d said Omotola Abimbola, a macro and fixed-income strategist at Chapel Hill Denham. That\u2019s based on the central bank\u2019s use of open-market operations to rein in liquidity and protect the naira.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Calibri Light&quot;,sans-serif\"><span style=\"color:#1f4d78\"><b><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;\"><span style=\"color:black\">Kenya, March 27<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;\"><span style=\"color:black\">Central bank rate: 9 percent<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;\"><span style=\"color:black\">Inflation rate: 4.1 percent (February)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"color:black\">A court ruling this month annulled a law limiting the interest rate lenders can charge consumers, but implementation of the annulment has been suspended for 12 months. So the judgment about interest-rate caps, which Governor Patrick Njoroge has said complicated monetary-policy transmission, should have little sway on the MPC\u2019s decision.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\">While Kenya\u2019s inflation rate is at a six-month low, a drought that\u2019s left more than a million people in need of food aid could boost price growth, limiting room for cuts after the MPC held the rate at its last three meetings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"color:black\">\u201cWe see little scope for further rate easing in this cycle, nor is it likely to be needed given the economy\u2019s recovery trajectory,\u201d Razia Khan, the chief economist for Africa and the Middle East at Standard Chartered Bank Plc, said by email. \u201cWe think the next move in interest rates is up, and forecast a 50 basis-point hike at the September MPC meeting.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/1002554\/Myjoyonline\/mjo-article-leaderboard_mid --><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Calibri Light&quot;,sans-serif\"><span style=\"color:#1f4d78\"><b>South Africa, March 28<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;\"><span style=\"color:black\">Repurchase rate: 6.75 percent<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;\"><span style=\"color:black\">Inflation rate: 4.1 percent (February)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"color:black\">South Africa\u2019s inflation rate stayed below the 4.5 percent mid-point of the central bank\u2019s target band for a second month in February. While electricity costs will increase by more than the MPC assumed in its January price-growth forecasts, it\u2019s not enough to trigger more policy tightening in an economy still recovering from last year\u2019s recession and reeling from rolling electricity blackouts.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"color:black\">The central bank\u2019s inflation forecast of 5.3 percent for next year means there\u2019s no option for a cut, but there\u2019s also no scope to increase rates because economic growth is under pressure, Elize Kruger, a senior economist at NKC African Economics, said by phone.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Calibri Light&quot;,sans-serif\"><span style=\"color:#1f4d78\"><b><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;\"><span style=\"color:black\">Egypt, March 28<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;\"><span style=\"color:black\">Deposit rate: 15.75 percent <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;\"><span style=\"color:black\">Inflation rate: 14.4 percent (February)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"color:black\">Egypt surprised markets with a 1 percentage-point cut in interest rates at its February meeting, capitalizing on improving growth, a continuing resurgence in foreign inflows into domestic debt and an appreciation in the pound to what was, at the time, a two-year high against the dollar.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/1002554\/Myjoyonline\/mjo-article-leaderboard_mid --><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"color:black\">However, an acceleration in headline inflation for a second straight month in February complicates Egypt\u2019s shift toward a cycle of monetary easing. Economists are divided over whether the central bank will take advantage of pound strength and robust inflows to cut again, or keep rates unchanged to avoid quickening inflation as the country heads toward the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, when food prices can rise.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Calibri Light&quot;,sans-serif\"><span style=\"color:#1f4d78\"><b><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;\"><span style=\"color:black\">Angola, March 29<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;\"><span style=\"color:black\">BNA rate: 15.75 percent<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;\"><span style=\"color:black\">Inflation rate: 17.8 percent (Luanda, February)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"color:black\">Policymakers in the southern African nation will probably keep the BNA rate on hold while focusing on normalizing foreign-exchange supply and reforms aimed at attracting more international investment, according to Phumelele Mbiyo, an economist at Standard Bank Group Ltd.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Calibri Light&quot;,sans-serif\"><span style=\"color:#1f4d78\"><b><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;\"><span style=\"color:black\">Ghana, April 1<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;\"><span style=\"color:black\">Policy rate: 16 <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;\"><span style=\"color:black\">percent<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;\"><span style=\"color:black\">Inflation rate: 9.2 percent (February)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"color:black\">Ghana\u2019s $3 billion Eurobond issuance last week helped the cedi pare some of the losses that followed the central bank\u2019s surprise rate cut in January and caused the currency to weaken as much as 16 percent against the dollar. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/1002554\/Myjoyonline\/mjo-article-leaderboard_mid --><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\">While there have been talks about reversing January\u2019s easing, such a move \u201cwould confuse the market and will most likely only be implemented if the government needs to entice more foreign inflows,\u201d Celeste Fauconnier, an Africa analyst at FirstRand Group Ltd.\u2019s Rand Merchant Bank unit, said in a report. \u201cThe cedi\u2019s comeback has also been aggressive enough for authorities to take a step back and assess the effects of the recent market turmoil.\u201d The currency has weakened 3.3 percent against the dollar this year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Calibri Light&quot;,sans-serif\"><span style=\"color:#1f4d78\"><b><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;\"><span style=\"color:black\">What Bloomberg\u2019s Economists Say<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"color:black\">\u201cInflation is within the target range of most African central banks but the weakening of the cedi following the Bank of Ghana\u2019s rate cut in January is a warning that many economies are vulnerable to a weakening of financial flows. 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