{"id":668531,"date":"2025-07-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2025\/07\/16\/egypts-financing-gap-narrows-by-half-in-current-fiscal-year\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T00:00:00","slug":"egypts-financing-gap-narrows-by-half-in-current-fiscal-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2025\/07\/16\/egypts-financing-gap-narrows-by-half-in-current-fiscal-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt\u2019s financing gap narrows by half in current fiscal year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>Good afternoon, friends, and happy almost-weekend. <\/strong>At home, we\u2019re celebrating a narrowing financing gap \u2014 and manifesting a long weekend next week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"tag-border-left\">THE BIG STORY TODAY-<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong> Financing gap narrows by half in current fiscal year:<\/strong> The IMF sees Egypt facing a financing gap of USD 5.8 bn in FY 2025-26, compared to USD 11.4 bn in FY 2024-25, excluding disbursals from the Extended Fund Facility (EFF), the IMF said in its <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ent.news\/2025\/7\/1099.pdf\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">country staff report (pdf)<\/a> for the fourth review of our USD 8 bn loan program.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>The government has secured financing commitments for th<\/strong><strong>e next 12 <font face=\"Arial\">months<\/font> from international partners<\/strong>, aiming to completely close the country\u2019s financing gap, according to the report. This includes financing related to the sale of development rights or real estate, the IMF noted. Arab countries also are expected to keep their deposits worth USD 18.3 bn at the Central Bank of Egypt until the end of our EFF arrangement in October 2026, unless they are used for the purchase of equities, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tag-border-left\">THE BIG STORY ABROAD-<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>It\u2019s another day with a mixed bag of headlines in the international press<\/strong><strong>, but the common thread among most is Trump\u2019s ongoing global tariff war.<\/strong> Among the stories getting top billing: <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>The Trump administration raised USD 47 bn in additional customs revenues<\/strong><strong> in 2Q <\/strong><strong>2025<\/strong>, after US trade partners broadly refrained from retaliating against the US president\u2019s tariffs, according to the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/82e32f7c-47e2-4e96-bb53-a58377e18aa9\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Financial Times<\/a>. Most countries have opted for negotiations in fear of facing even higher tariffs, which already reached their highest levels since the 1930s. <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>For Indonesia, negotiations proved the better path:<\/strong> The US reached a new trade agreement with Indonesia, Trump announced yesterday, following negotiations described by Jakarta as an \u201cextraordinary struggle,\u201d according to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2025\/07\/15\/economy\/trump-says-trade-deal-with-indonesia\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a>. The agreement will see the US impose a 19% tariff on exports from the country, a decrease from the initial 32% threatened by the US president. <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>MEANWHILE- UK inflation accelerated to 3.6% in June 2025, up from 3.4% in May<\/strong> \u2014 the highest since January 2024, according to the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ons.gov.uk\/economy\/inflationandpriceindices\/bulletins\/consumerpriceinflation\/latest\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Office for National Statistics<\/a>. The jump was mainly fueled by both fuel and food price inflation. Despite the rise, the Bank of England remains optimistic about cutting interest rates, which currently remain much higher than the bank\u2019s target rate of 2%. (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/live\/c4g89vqp8p4t\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/jul\/16\/uk-inflation-labour-economic-scrutiny\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">The Guardian<\/a>)<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12 subscribe-box-panel\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"title\">\n<h4 class=\"fw-lighter mb-10\">   Get <b style=\"font-weight: 700\">Enterprise<\/b> daily   <\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"mb-10\">The roundup of news and trends that move your markets and shape corporate agendas delivered straight to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"\/egypt\/en\/user\/NewsLetters\" type=\"button \" class=\"btn-green px-3 d-flex align-items-center\" rel=\"noopener\">Subscribe here<\/a>  <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>\u2600\ufe0f <\/strong><strong>TOMORROW\u2019S WEATHER- <\/strong>We hope you\u2019ve acquainted yourself with the heat, because tomorrow temperatures in Cairo are set to peak at 39\u00b0C, before cooling down to 25\u00b0C. It\u2019s a cooler story up north, with temperatures reaching a high of just 29\u00b0C and a low of 25\u00b0C, according to our favorite weather app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good afternoon, friends, and happy almost-weekend. At home, we\u2019re celebrating a narrowing financing gap \u2014 and manifesting a long weekend next week. 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