{"id":657383,"date":"2024-12-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2024\/12\/19\/fitch-upgrades-its-growth-outlook-on-egypt-for-2025-2026\/"},"modified":"2024-12-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T00:00:00","slug":"fitch-upgrades-its-growth-outlook-on-egypt-for-2025-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2024\/12\/19\/fitch-upgrades-its-growth-outlook-on-egypt-for-2025-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Fitch upgrades its growth outlook on Egypt for 2025-2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"> <strong>Fitch Solutions\u2019<\/strong><strong> research unit BMI now expects the Egyptian economy to grow 5.1% in FY <\/strong><strong>2025-2026<\/strong>, up 0.4 percent points from its previous 4.7% projection, it said in its <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/store.fitchsolutions.com\/country-risk\/egypt-country-risk-report\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">latest<\/a> country risk report for Egypt. The decision was supported by an expected improvement in Red Sea navigation, an uptick in the services sector on the back of calming geopolitical risks, and lower borrowing costs pushing up investment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\">(<strong>Tap or click the headline above to read this story with all of the links <\/strong>to our background as well as external sources.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>But its forecast for the current fiscal year is not as rosy: <\/strong>The Fitch research unit trimmed its growth projection by 0.5 percentage points for FY 2024-2025 and now sees Egypt\u2019s economy growing at a 3.7% clip, down from the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/ed7eaf63-76b4-42dc-88ba-e22a58e3c0fc\/war-in-gaza-and-falling-gas-production-continue-to-be-thorns-in-economy%25e2%2580%2599s-side,-says-bmi-report\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">4.2%<\/a> forecast in September. BMI attributed the cut to weaker performance in the last quarter of the 2023-2024 fiscal year alongside the ongoing disruptions in the Red Sea that are cutting down on Suez Canal receipts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>Despite the downgrade, we\u2019re still up on the previous fiscal year<\/strong>, with the report noting that the recovery of non-oil exports and increased investment will keep the country\u2019s growth above the 2.4% mark, seen last fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>BMI\u2019s forecast is more pessimistic than most<\/strong>, sitting below both the government's <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/3fd60d61-8953-483c-a09b-8bce0f612e9e\/egypt%25e2%2580%2599s-fy-2024-2025-draft-budget-delivered-to-the-house\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">4.2%<\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/3fd60d61-8953-483c-a09b-8bce0f612e9e\/egypt%25e2%2580%2599s-fy-2024-2025-draft-budget-delivered-to-the-house\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">growth target<\/a> for the year and the IMF\u2019s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/026f12b0-b7c3-4889-9cd7-dfb174e79de5\/\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">expected 4.1%<\/a>. However, the forecast remains above the World Bank\u2019s penciled <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/c28d504b-997b-4403-8f2f-c04a2a80b6b1\/\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">3.5% growth<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>PLUS- Fitch doesn\u2019t expect the EGP to weaken any further <\/strong>against the greenback thanks to improved investor sentiment and market intervention. Projections of a weaker USD and easing geopolitical tensions, which will help Suez Canal revenues recover, will help the EGP regain some of its losses. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fitch sees the economy growing 5.1% next fiscal year<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":657384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7206],"tags":[104,72,8565],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-657383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","tag-economy","tag-enterpriseam","tag-fitch","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"bdf2ef39-368b-4789-af24-2ffb358142ce","order":"4","is_powered_by":false,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"https:\/\/ent.news\/2024\/3\/1358.jpg","photo_position":"above","homepage_title":"","full_issue_title":"Fitch upgrades its growth outlook on Egypt for 2025-2026","related_issue":[657378],"teaser":"Fitch sees the economy growing 5.1% next fiscal year","voice_url":"https:\/\/s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/ent.news\/audio\/2024\/12\/.cd9499d8-2ed5-4995-a60e-c254fcbcf4ab.mp3"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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