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Stock Market / Finance in Sierra Leone

  • Back on the growth path: a 5.4% GDP increase expected

    SIERRA LEONE, 2017/06/19 Sound macroeconomic policies together with generous support from development partners has helped ensure fiscal and external sustainability following the devastation caused by the Ebola crisis and a drop in iron ore prices Until the outbreak of Ebola in May 2014, Sierra Leone – a country again still emerging from the devastating legacy of conflict – was seeking to become a transformed country with middle-gain status. However, at the same time as West Africa was struck by the deadly epidemic, a disease that ended up killing thousands of people in the region, no other country suffered the shattering socio-economic consequences additional deeply than Sierra Leone.
  • London eyes dual listings on west African capital markets

    BENIN, 2015/05/10 Following on from partnerships and dual listings with a number of African capital markets, the London Stock Exchange (LSE) is looking to foster dual listings with the West African regional exchange. “We are looking to attract and encourage dual listings,” Ibukun Adebayo, co-chief of emerging markets at the LSE Group, tells This Is Africa during an event on west African capital markets. “Listing with the LSE provides profile and additional liquidity in nations promoting dual listings.”