{"id":545917,"date":"2022-04-17T04:12:49","date_gmt":"2022-04-17T04:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2022\/04\/17\/planet-finance-standard-chartered-is-pulling-back-from-mea-but-still-wants-to-enter-egypt\/"},"modified":"2022-04-17T04:12:49","modified_gmt":"2022-04-17T04:12:49","slug":"planet-finance-standard-chartered-is-pulling-back-from-mea-but-still-wants-to-enter-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2022\/04\/17\/planet-finance-standard-chartered-is-pulling-back-from-mea-but-still-wants-to-enter-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"Planet Finance: Standard Chartered is pulling back from MEA, but still wants to enter Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"content-anchor\" id=\"tldr-story-10\"><\/a> <strong>Standard Chartered plans major exit in MEA markets \u2014 but still wants to enter <\/strong><strong>Egypt:<\/strong> Standard Chartered is completely shutting its business in seven countries in Africa and the Middle East in efforts to redirect resources to countries \u201cwhere it can have the greatest scale and growth potential,\u201d it said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sc.com\/en\/media\/press-release\/standard-chartered-announces-changes-to-refocus-and-simplify-its-presence-in-africa-middle-east-region\/\">press release<\/a>. The bank will fully exit Angola, Cameroon, Gambia, Jordan, Lebanon, Sierra Leone, and Zimbabwe, and reduce its operations in Tanzania and Cote d\u2019Ivoire. <strong>The bank is still planning to enter Egypt<\/strong>, having <a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/eaace8d1-af69-4262-aaa0-9fbb5f5097e2\">had its license application approved<\/a> on a preliminary basis by the central bank earlier this year \u2014 and it has opened its first branch in KSA.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is the era of negative-yielding debt at an end? <\/strong>Central bank moves to raise interest rates have seen global bond prices plummet while yields soar \u2014 a shift that could put paid to the phenomenon of negative yields in the debt markets, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/c0401e1e-c5f4-49a3-8c07-7ebfc4fda46a\">Financial Times<\/a> reports. Negative yields \u2014 where prices are so high and yields so low that investors would lose money if they held their bonds to term \u2014 have been a firm feature of European and Japanese bond markets in recent years. But with central banks almost everywhere turning hawkish amid sustained price pressures, the value of bonds with yields below zero has plunged from more than USD 14 tn in December to under USD 3 tn, the salmon-colored paper reports citing Bloomberg data.<\/p>\n<div class='stock-ticker-panel'>\n<table class='table stock-ticker-table table-striped markets-table'>\n<tbody>\n<tr class='tr-row-down'>\n<td class='td-list-down'>\n<p><svg class='e-icon e-TypeMarkets1'><use xlink:href='#e-TypeMarkets1'><\/use><\/svg><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p><strong>EGX30 <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>10,680<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>-1.6% (YTD: -10.6%)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class='tr-row-down'>\n<td class='td-list-down'>\n<p><svg class='e-icon e-TypeMarkets1'><use xlink:href='#e-TypeMarkets1'><\/use><\/svg><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p><strong>USD (CBE)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>Buy 18.34<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>Sell 18.44<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class='tr-row-down'>\n<td class='td-list-down'>\n<p><svg class='e-icon e-TypeMarkets1'><use xlink:href='#e-TypeMarkets1'><\/use><\/svg><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p><strong>USD at CIB<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>Buy 18.34<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>Sell 18.44<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class='tr-row-none'>\n<td class='td-list-none'>\n<p><svg class='e-icon e-TypeMarkets'><use xlink:href='#e-TypeMarkets'><\/use><\/svg><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p><strong>Interest rates CBE<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>9.25% deposit<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>10.25% lending<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class='tr-row-up'>\n<td class='td-list-up'>\n<p><svg class='e-icon e-TypeMarkets11'><use xlink:href='#e-TypeMarkets11'><\/use><\/svg><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p><strong>Tadawul<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>13,621<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>+0.6% (YTD: +20.7%)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class='tr-row-none'>\n<td class='td-list-none'>\n<p><svg class='e-icon e-TypeMarkets'><use xlink:href='#e-TypeMarkets'><\/use><\/svg><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p><strong>ADX<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>9,970<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>0.0% (YTD: +17.5%)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class='tr-row-up'>\n<td class='td-list-up'>\n<p><svg class='e-icon e-TypeMarkets11'><use xlink:href='#e-TypeMarkets11'><\/use><\/svg><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p><strong>DFM<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>3,602<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>+0.5% (YTD: +12.7%)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class='tr-row-down'>\n<td class='td-list-down'>\n<p><svg class='e-icon e-TypeMarkets1'><use xlink:href='#e-TypeMarkets1'><\/use><\/svg><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p><strong>S&P 500<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>4,393<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>-1.2% (YTD: -7.8%)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class='tr-row-up'>\n<td class='td-list-up'>\n<p><svg class='e-icon e-TypeMarkets11'><use xlink:href='#e-TypeMarkets11'><\/use><\/svg><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p><strong>FTSE 100<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>7,616<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>+0.5% (YTD: +3.1%)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class='tr-row-up'>\n<td class='td-list-up'>\n<p><svg class='e-icon e-TypeMarkets11'><use xlink:href='#e-TypeMarkets11'><\/use><\/svg><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p><strong>Euro Stoxx 50<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>3,849<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>+0.5% (YTD: -10.5%)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class='tr-row-up'>\n<td class='td-list-up'>\n<p><svg class='e-icon e-TypeMarkets11'><use xlink:href='#e-TypeMarkets11'><\/use><\/svg><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p><strong>Brent crude<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>USD 111.70<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>+2.7%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class='tr-row-up'>\n<td class='td-list-up'>\n<p><svg class='e-icon e-TypeMarkets11'><use xlink:href='#e-TypeMarkets11'><\/use><\/svg><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p><strong>Natural gas <\/strong>(Nymex)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>USD 7.30<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>+4.3%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class='tr-row-down'>\n<td class='td-list-down'>\n<p><svg class='e-icon e-TypeMarkets1'><use xlink:href='#e-TypeMarkets1'><\/use><\/svg><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p><strong>Gold<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>USD 1,974.90<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>-0.5%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class='tr-row-up'>\n<td class='td-list-up'>\n<p><svg class='e-icon e-TypeMarkets11'><use xlink:href='#e-TypeMarkets11'><\/use><\/svg><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p><strong>BTC<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>USD 40,514.00<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>+0.2% (as of midnight)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>THE CLOSING BELL-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The EGX30 fell 1.6% at Thursday\u2019s close<\/strong> on turnover of EGP 996 mn (4.6% above the 90-day average). 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