Bertrand Llinas

Fund Manager, Africa, Mountains

[Robin Brooks @robin_j_brooks]

Markets are buzzing about Dollar weakness, which says more about what people *want* than reality, given how elevated USD remains. If there does end up being a big Dollar fall, it will be vs EM (blue), not the G10 (black). It's vs EM that a big risk premium exists, not the G10...

[Bloomberg Africa @BloombergAfrica]

The Nigerian facility owned by Aliko Dangote, Africa's richest man, will be the biggest in the world when completed https://t.co/0e2Iw9g038

[Mathias Althoff @MathiasAlthoff]

IMF last night approved $3.4bn in Emergency Funding for Nigeria, biggest disbursement for any country yet. ["https://t.co/nUws5WggiC"]

[Bertrand Llinas @Bertrand_Llinas]

Revision to GDP methodology gives boost to Ivory Coast's reported economy | Article [AMP] | Reuters https://t.co/0y0xtFlUys

[Bertrand Llinas @Bertrand_Llinas]

West Africa needs to be prudent after CFA franc https://t.co/X2tMvYIeBR @FT #FCFA

[david pilling @davidpilling]

#Macron confirms @ft scoop (or read FT story & thought it was a good idea): #France loosens supervision of ‘colonial’ west African currency https://t.co/Ljm2ojgNjs #cfafranc #francafrique

[Bertrand Llinas @Bertrand_Llinas]

La fin du franc CFA annoncée par Emmanuel Macron et Alassane Ouattara https://t.co/fM52Rg8jbc

[Ayodeji Ebo Ph.D @eboayodeji]

Nigerian Treasury Bills Primary Market Auction Results for today, 18-Dec-19. Stop rates continued on the downward trend. Negative real return continued to expand.
@Afrinvest @Afr_Research @FinPlanKaluAja1 @BBoason
@CTVtempili @Rotankwot

[Bertrand Llinas @Bertrand_Llinas]

Côte d’Ivoire/Exécution du budget 2019 : 95.3% des objectifs fiscaux atteints https://t.co/g8vVIUFzJc #fiscalpolicy #IvoryCoast #Nigeria @finance_sika

[Bertrand Llinas @Bertrand_Llinas]

C'est maintenant qu'il faut investir en Afrique https://t.co/cphCPBionB @LesEchos

[Bertrand Llinas @Bertrand_Llinas]

Investors pour almost $400m into African #fintech in a week https://t.co/phFwVrBAED @FT

[Bertrand Llinas @Bertrand_Llinas]

Orange gets banking licence to operate savings and loans in West Africa https://t.co/lWzhxxhvOM @orange #Banking #inclusion

[Bertrand Llinas @Bertrand_Llinas]

#Nigeria top fintech company is set to be Africa’s first home-grown unicorn with Visa investment @InterswitchGRP https://t.co/nLAMpIxS3l

[Bloomberg Africa @BloombergAfrica]

Nigeria and Togo are among the most improved nations in the World Bank’s rankings for ease of doing business https://t.co/9KEy9RROfM

[Bloomberg Africa @BloombergAfrica]

The world may be wavering on free trade, but Africa is embracing it https://t.co/98yzIUsW0Q

[Christine Lagarde @Lagarde]

My sincere thanks to European leaders for appointing me as President of the @ecb from 1 November 2019. It is an honour to succeed Mario Draghi. I am looking forward to working with the ECB’s talented staff to keep euro area prices stable and banks safe.

[Bloomberg @business]

The city of Beijing has almost as many electric car chargers as the entire U.S. https://t.co/qWf4IIVjeC

[Paul Wallace @PaulWallace123]

Cote d'Ivoire's issuing Eurobonds today. It's selling 11- and 20-year euro notes. Yield guidance is 6.13%-6.25% for the former & 7.13% for the latter. It has the best-performing euro debt in emerging markets this year (thanks to high yields and economic growth). #CDI @markets

[Paul Wallace @PaulWallace123]

#Nigeria's President #Buhari announces a much bigger budget for 2020 as he looks to boost a weak economy. But will he manage to raise enough revenue to fund it? https://t.co/yjiXojixVr @alonsosotoj @AlakeTope

[Bertrand Llinas @Bertrand_Llinas]

les premiers smartphones #MadeinAfrica sont au #Rwanda https://t.co/nhVqxMpVd0