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Nigerian rates on hold, Kenya cuts, SAA losing altitude

Monetary policymakers in Nigeria and Ghana kept their key rates on hold this week, while their Kenyan peers loosened policy. We expect that the next move in all three countries will be a cut. Elsewhere, South African Airways faced another fiscal crisis. But we don’t think that the collapse of the firm would do much economic damage.

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