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EA ‘bond market is a free lunch’

Bond investors in East Africa yearn for sales of longer-term government paper to secure high yields and benefit from capital gains spurred by rate cuts seen later this year.

Yields on government securities in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda surged last week as inflation and benchmark interest rates rocketed, and governments struggled to plug budget deficits.

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