Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta yesterday announced that some part of the country was going into a containment, a move aimed at easing the spread of the deadly Wuhan Virus. This news came as the country’s top analysts spoke on the new tax reforms which have been raised by the national treasury in the tax amendment bill.
On Monday, the Nairobi Securities Exchange gains lacked Monday’s momentum, and were moderate, mainly in the banking sector, even though global coronavirus cases kept rising and an economic crash on a scale not seen for generations looms large. Moves in the currency and bond markets were more muted, weighed by worries of containment of some towns in Kenya as a move too soon, after the dusk to dawn curfew and could drive a fresh wave of an economic fallout.
In the U.S a dispersion of Wall Street views on the outlook for stocks has been widening for a while, and Scott Minerd may have taken things up another notch.
Early Tuesday data on Asian markets showed that Asian stocks headed for their first back-to-back gain in two weeks on continuing optimism that the deadly coronavirus outbreak may be waning in some key epicenters.
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