{"id":568833,"date":"2020-02-05T04:27:33","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T04:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2020\/02\/05\/what-were-tracking-on-5-february-2020\/"},"modified":"2020-02-05T04:27:33","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T04:27:33","slug":"what-were-tracking-on-5-february-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2020\/02\/05\/what-were-tracking-on-5-february-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"What we\u2019re tracking on 5 February 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>We have lots of M&A stories for you this morning<\/strong> and the first PMI reading of the new decade is in (and it isn\u2019t pretty): Non-oil business activity fell to three-year lows in January on falling output and weak demand.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The UAE didn\u2019t do much better<\/strong>, seeing its PMI enter contraction territory for the first time since 2009. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-02-04\/u-a-e-business-growth-halts-first-time-since-dubai-near-default?sref=mmeFTDW1\">Bloomberg has more on that<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We have chapter and verse on all of this in this morning\u2019s Speed Round, below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News triggers<\/strong> to keep your eye on over the coming weeks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Inflation figures will be published<\/strong> next Monday, 10 February;<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.egyps.com\/\">The Egypt Petroleum Show<\/a><\/strong> runs 11-13 February;<\/li>\n<li><strong>The CBE will meet on Thursday, 20 February<\/strong> to discuss interest rates.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr class=\"grey-line\" \/>\n<p><strong>*** For our email subscribers: Our subject lines are back to normal for the next week.<\/strong> We dropped detailed teasers in December in favour of \u201cYour morning briefing\u201d as we fought the algorithms that determine whether we wind up in your inbox or not. We miss them (and, apparently, so do you), so we\u2019re trying them out again and we\u2019ll see what the data says next week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>*** Did you miss the results of our 2020 Enterprise Reader Poll? <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/1428f01f-9682-484b-8152-b9b69ea63b4a\">Check it out here.<\/a><\/p>\n<hr class=\"grey-line\" \/>\n<p><strong>The <\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kauffmanfellows.org\/\">Kauffman Fellows<\/a><\/strong><strong> are coming to Cairo this month: <\/strong>The global VC group will be in town for a series of networking events taking place on 13-15 February. The visit will kick off with an evening at the pyramids co-hosted by EFG Hermes, Swvl, Marakez and Vezeeta that will bring together a number of local and regional investors, businesspeople and media figures. AI startup and recent <a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.press\/podcast\/\">Making It<\/a> guests Elves will then host a BBQ on 14 February featuring a handful of local startups, before AmCham and Endeavour organize a breakfast on the final day of the visit.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"grey-line\" \/>\n<p><strong>Hong Kong has reported its first death from China\u2019s coronavirus<\/strong>, meaning the total deaths <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-02-04\/china-will-soon-find-out-if-mass-quarantine-worked-virus-update?srnd=premium-middle-east\">now stand at nearly 500<\/a> and the number of confirmed cases at over 20k. Hong Kong is now set to close some of its busiest checkpoints with mainland China, the <a href=\"http:\/\/wsj.com\/articles\/coronavirus-cases-rise-above-20-000-in-china-as-hong-kong-reports-first-death-11580799736?mod=hp_lead_pos1\">Wall Street Journal reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The WHO is still urging people not to panic<\/strong>, noting that the virus has not yet shown much mutation or qualified as a pandemic (meaning its raging on two continents), the organization said at a briefing in Geneva.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"grey-line\" \/>\n<p><a id=\"tldr-story-07\" class=\"content-anchor\"><\/a> <strong>Across the Atlantic: 24 hours late and after a <\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/02\/04\/us\/politics\/iowa-caucus-nh-primary.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage\">genuinely confusing day<\/a><\/strong><strong>, early results from <\/strong><strong>the Iowa caucuses show Pete Buttigieg in the lead<\/strong>, narrowly ahead of Bernie Sanders. Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden trail, but round out the top four. Head over to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/02\/04\/us\/politics\/iowa-caucus-nh-primary.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage\">New York Times<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\">Politico<\/a> to follow the numbers as they come in.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The <\/strong><strong>final arguments in President Donald Trump\u2019s impeachment trial took place on the US <\/strong><strong>Senate floor yesterda<\/strong><strong>y. <\/strong>Pundits expect The Donald to be acquitted in a vote today. At dispatch time, Trump had made no mention of impeachment as he was delivering his annual state of the union speech touting his economic \u201cwins\u201d \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-speech\/emerging-from-impeachment-shadow-trump-uses-speech-to-ridicule-democrats-tout-economy-idUSKBN1ZY0JK\">Reuters<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/02\/04\/us\/politics\/state-of-the-union-address.html\">NY Times<\/a> have wall-to-wall coverage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In other international miscellany:<\/strong> There\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-02-04\/un-shifts-tone-in-seeing-desire-to-strengthen-shaky-libya-truce?sref=mmeFTDW1\">optimism about Libyan peace talks in Geneva<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-02-03\/israel-sudan-to-work-toward-normalizing-ties-after-leaders-meet?sref=mmeFTDW1\">Sudan is willing to work toward normalized relations with Israel<\/a>, the country\u2019s military leader told Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu in Khartoum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"web-image stand-out-borderless\"><a href=\"http:\/\/somabay.com\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ent.news\/2020\/2\/Catamaran-1600px.png?ssl=1\" alt=\"enterprise\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have lots of global auto news coming in this morning:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The UK has a plan to ban the sale of all polluting cars by 2035<\/strong>, but the auto industry has deemed it unworkable. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/46bfd6e2-473a-11ea-aee2-9ddbdc86190d\">Financial Times<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Uber is looking at \u201cradical\u201d new financial innovation to become profitable<\/strong>, examining different ways of using and scaling a driverless car model. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/dc2ec40e-440b-11ea-a43a-c4b328d9061c\">Financial Times<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><strong>As more companies begin to develop flying cars, safety concerns are at the <\/strong><strong>forefront of the discussion. <\/strong>Porsche, Toyota, and Hyundai partnering up with aircraft manufacturers.(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/will-flying-cars-be-safer-than-helicopters-11580474166\">Wall Street Journal<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"web-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ent.news\/2020\/1\/Web-view-01.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"enterprise\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>It\u2019s Hardhat day \u2014 your weekly briefing of all things infrastructure in Egypt: <\/strong>Enterprise\u2019s industry vertical focuses each Wednesday on infrastructure, covering everything from energy, water, transportation, urban development and even social infrastructure such as health and education.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In today\u2019s issue: <\/strong>Hardhat looks at infrastructure bonds: what they are, and why the government is increasingly seeing them as a tool to fund its pipeline of infrastructure projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have lots of M&#038;A stories for you this morning and the first PMI reading of the new decade is in (and it isn\u2019t pretty): Non-oil business activity fell to three-year lows in January on falling output and weak demand. 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The PMI reading for the month still remained below the 50.0 neutral mark at 49.7, but was over its long-run average. \u201cPanelists noted stronger\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Speed Round&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Speed Round","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/category\/speed-round\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ent.news\/internal\/536550.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":616450,"url":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2024\/03\/05\/this-evening-vodafone-technical-glitch-resolved-plus-red-sea-shipping-disruption-behind-our-sharp-fall-in-business-activity-in-february\/","url_meta":{"origin":568833,"position":2},"title":"THIS EVENING: Vodafone technical glitch resolved. PLUS: Red Sea shipping disruption behind our sharp fall in business activity in February","author":"enterpriseam admin","date":"5 March 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen and happy hump day. We are rolling through what remains of the last full week before Ramadan starts\u2026but first a mea culpa\u2026Correction: We mistakenly wrote in today\u2019s issue of Enterprise Egypt AM that Dr. Mahmoud Mohiedin is the World Bank\u2019s Senior Vice President for the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;WHAT WE\u2019RE TRACKING TONIGHT&quot;","block_context":{"text":"WHAT WE\u2019RE TRACKING TONIGHT","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/category\/what-were-tracking-tonight\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ent.news\/2021\/10\/268.jpg?fit=%2C&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":618174,"url":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2024\/04\/03\/this-evening-egypts-pmi-increased-slightly-to-47-6-in-march\/","url_meta":{"origin":568833,"position":3},"title":"THIS EVENING: Egypt\u2019s PMI increased slightly to 47.6 in March","author":"enterpriseam admin","date":"3 April 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and happy almost-Thursday. We have some updates on our PMI figures that arrived earlier during the business day. THE BIG STORY TODAY Egypt\u2019s non-oil sector activity declined at a slower pace in March: Egypt\u2019s purchasing manager index (PMI) figure \u2014 which tracks the country\u2019s non-oil\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;WHAT WE\u2019RE TRACKING TONIGHT&quot;","block_context":{"text":"WHAT WE\u2019RE TRACKING TONIGHT","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/category\/what-were-tracking-tonight\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ent.news\/2022\/12\/758.jpg?fit=%2C&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":543058,"url":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2022\/01\/04\/this-evening-pmi-is-still-in-contraction-egx-says-thursday-is-off-also-house-gives-unified-planning-act-green-light\/","url_meta":{"origin":568833,"position":4},"title":"THIS EVENING: PMI is still in contraction + EGX says Thursday is off. ALSO: House gives Unified Planning Act green light","author":"enterpriseam admin","date":"4 January 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Happy hump day, ladies and gentlemen. It\u2019s a relatively calm afternoon on the local news front (thank you, shortened workweek), but with the House of Representatives back in session, that might soon change.Bankers and finance folks are officially off this Thursday, as the EGX confirmed earlier today the bourse will\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;WHAT WE\u2019RE TRACKING TONIGHT&quot;","block_context":{"text":"WHAT WE\u2019RE TRACKING TONIGHT","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/category\/what-were-tracking-tonight\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ent.news\/internal\/536550.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":684215,"url":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2026\/03\/04\/few-silver-linings-in-february-pmi-as-egyptian-private-sector-contraction-accelerates\/","url_meta":{"origin":568833,"position":5},"title":"Few silver linings in February PMI as Egyptian private sector contraction accelerates","author":"enterpriseam admin","date":"4 March 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"One bright spot was construction, which was marked as the only sector to report an increase in new orders","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Economy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Economy","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/category\/economy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ent.news\/2025\/1\/2105.jpg?fit=%2C&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568833\/revisions"}],"acf:post":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue\/568831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568833"},{"taxonomy":"brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/brand?post=568833"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=568833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}