{"id":36789,"date":"2021-02-24T09:48:39","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T09:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abdas.org\/?p=36789"},"modified":"2021-02-24T09:48:39","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T09:48:39","slug":"morocco-and-mauritius-join-the-african-bond-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/2021\/02\/24\/morocco-and-mauritius-join-the-african-bond-index\/","title":{"rendered":"Morocco and Mauritius Join the African Bond Index"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/afd.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-36790\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/afd.png 750w, https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/afd-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/afd-150x75.png 150w, https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/afd-500x250.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/>Morocco and Mauritius have joined 8 African countries that are part of the Bloomberg African Bond Index (ABABI) to provide investors with a tool to measure and track Africa\u2019s local bond markets\u2019 performance.<\/p>\n<p>The set of indices are administered by the AfDB and calculated by the global index provider, Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<p>Indices are usually used as a benchmark against which a financial instrument\u2019s performance can be tracked easily, making it possible to make comparisons within a region, industry sector, or other asset class.<\/p>\n<p>It is expected that the ABABI will help drive investment into bond markets in Mauritius and Morocco, which are 2 of Africa\u2019s better-rated issuers.<\/p>\n<p>According to Moody\u2019s, Morocco, Mauritius, South Africa &#038; Senegal are the only African countries which are above the B rating of \u201cspeculative\u201d and \u201csubject to high credit risk\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The ABABI was first introduced in the year 2014 in partnership with the African Financial Markets Initiative (AFMI) to expand debt markets across the continent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morocco and Mauritius have joined 8 African countries that are part of the Bloomberg African Bond Index (ABABI) to provide investors with a tool to measure and track Africa\u2019s local &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49501,"featured_media":36790,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[467,31,32,33,34,73,126],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36789"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36791,"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36789\/revisions\/36791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}