Experts say the government should announce ways to reduce the credit gap in the Budget and make the sector more self-reliant.
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Today was helping review the weeks financial report and I could not help but note the significant mixed reports on the numbers that the financials reports are sending. 1. Interest rates remain high treasury bills averaging 16-17% pa. The borrowing rates for individuals in the same breadth are close to 20%. With the cost of funding doing true business is clearly extremely difficult. No wonder the default rates are at an 18 years high. I think this will remain tough for businesses. 2. The Stanbic PMI index is at 47 showing that business leaders are pessimistic about the prospects in the short term. 3. The GDP growth is at at decent 5% in quarter with agriculture leading the way. Let’s give credit where it is due the government has done some good job with subsidizing inputs but the good rains did a good job. Tourim is doing great and growth is clear. 4. The current account deficit increased meaning we are importing more goods and services than we are exporting. The balance of payment iincreased as we got more financial flows into the country. A growth in the Current account deficit is something we need to work on as a country and given recent newspaper article that manufacturing grew at the slowest pace in a long time we need to relook at this. 5. On the budgeting front if last year is anything to go by the revenue targets could have been missed and the affected would be the development expenditure. 6. Currency has done well this year significantly compared to the other countries. My thinking looking at the above the focus should be assisting local businesses get solutions to the main issues mainly; funding, markets and business skills. A reduction in the CBR rate would help reduce the cost of borrowing. In my view it does not work as a leading indicator and does not determine the rate of investment but rather only the cost of loans which has led to high defaults anyway. The CBR support for the currency can only be artificial to some extent better work on increasing production and export and we work on the current account. Our inflation is not demand driven so a high return does not affect consumption. Inflation is low anyway. All in all my view is no better time to invest in government securities since once all is fixed the current interest rates should come down. As you start you investment journey join Zurit Consulting prosperity class and let them guide your investment.
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