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Saturday,
June 08, 2019 / 07:58PM / By ARM Research
Global Economy
This week, the Fed chairman signaled an openness to
rate cut, following the recent development around trade war. He guided that the
Fed will closely monitor its implication on growth and act appropriately to sustain
an expansion in the economy. Also, U.S jobs data released today shows that
employers added only 75,000 jobs in the month of May, a slowdown from an
average of 161,000 new jobs, since the start of the year. The jobs data further
raises concern on growth which brings the FOMC one step closer to a rate cut.
Elsewhere in the Eurozone, preliminary estimates released by Eurostat showed a
further decline in inflation rate to 1.2% in May from 1.7% recorded in the
previous month, driven by declines in energy prices and services. Consequently,
the ECB left rates unchanged at the policy meeting held this week and extended
its earliest date for a rate hike to mid-2020 (previously year-end).
Domestic Economy
Data
released by the National Bureau of Statistics revealed Nigeria’s trade surplus
in Q1 2019 contracted by -53.2% YoY to N832 billion, largely driven by an
expansion in imports. Over the period, imports expanded by 25.8% due to
increased purchase of machinery which offset the decline in mineral products. Also
exports declined by 3.9% YoY to N4.5 trillion, mirroring declines in crude oil
exports (-5.67% YoY) which neutered growth in non-oil exports (+1.65% YoY).
Elsewhere, the World Bank recently revised Nigeria’s GDP growth lower to 2.1%
in 2019 from its prior estimate of 2.2%. This was due to concerns regarding
supply disruptions in the oil sector and lack of reforms to spur new capacity.
That said, the world bank estimates growth to be stable over 2020 before
strengthening to 2.4 percent in 2021.
Equities
In
a twist of events, the Nigerian Bourse closed the week negative with the NSE
ASI shedding 2.05% WoW to close at 30,432.13 points, with market capitalization
dropping by N449.16 billion. The bearish sentiment was spurred by losses
recorded across all sectors; Banking (-0.96%), Cement (-5.13%), Construction
(-5.44%), Personal care (-2.62%), Food (-1.69%), Insurance (1.48%) and Oil
& Gas (-11.90%). Dissecting the sector performance reveals selloff across
various stocks such as GUARANTY: -3.80%, DANGCEM: -5.26%, PZ: -9.26%, UNILEVER:
0.16%, DANGSUGA: -12.88%, SEPLAT: -6.64% and MTN: -0.33%.
Fixed Income
Over the course of the holiday-shortened week, average
fixed income yields expanded 84bps WoW to 13.78%, following yields uptick at
both ends of the curve. Notably, the apex bank conducted OMO auction twice this
week taking up N476 billion from the system which more than outweighed inflow
of N177 billion OMO maturities. As a result, average NTB yields closed the week
134 bps higher WoW to 13.29%, with yields expanding across the 91-day (+176 bps
WoW), 182-day (+109 bps) and 365-day (+117 bps) bills. At the other end of the
curve, average bond yields rose by a relatively smaller margin of 34bps to
14.28%. This was led by sell-offs in the shorter tenured issuances with the JUN
19, FEB 20 and JUL 21 closing higher by 149bps, 103bps and 73bps
respectively.
Take-Away For The Week
Trend in Nigeria’s
Trade Balance
This week, we feature the Q1 19 trade
data released by the National Bureau of Statistics which showed decline in
trade balance by 53% YoY to N832 billion, following a jump in imports (+26% to
$3.7 trillion) and dip in exports (-4% YoY to $4.5 trillion).
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