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African Markets - Factors to watch on November 2

By Reuters News

NAIROBI, Nov 2 (Reuters) - The following company announcements, scheduled economic indicators, debt and currency market moves and political events may affect African markets on Monday.

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GLOBAL MARKETS

Share markets steadied in Asia on Monday as investors hoped for Apple earnings later in the day to provide some relief from AI cash-burn worries, while oil prices eased after talks continued between Iranian and Qatari mediators.MKTS/GLOB


WORLD OIL PRICES

Oil prices slipped more than 1% on Monday after Iranian and Qatari officials held a third straight day of talks aimed at pushing for a deal to end the US-Israeli war on Iran.O/R


AFRICA STOCKS

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SOUTH AFRICA MARKETS

The South African rand was little changed in early trade on Friday as investors awaited domestic budget and trade balance data while keeping an eye on a key US trade review and next week's local government elections.


GHANA - RUSSIA NUCLEAR POWER

Russia has agreed to work with Ghana on developing a 2,000-megawatt nuclear power plant following talks at the Russia-Africa Summit, Ghanaian Foreign Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa said on Saturday.


SENEGAL BUDGET

Senegalese lawmakers on Friday rejected for a second time a revised budget that is crucial to sealing a new programme with the International Monetary Fund, according to a statement from the country's ruling party PASTEF.


DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO HEALTH - EBOLA

The death toll from the Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo has surpassed 5,000, government data showed on Friday, as authorities had yet to find a way to control the country's deadliest Ebola epidemic on record.


ETHIOPIA SECURITY

At least 15 people, several of them children, died in a series of drone strikes that hit a camp for displaced civilians in Ethiopia's Amhara region, two sources involved in a rescue operation said on Friday.


KENYA MINING

Engineering giant Fluor Corp FLR.N is among a group of mostly US investors vying to develop Kenya's Mrima Hill critical minerals deposit, after two Chinese companies pulled out of the process, Kenya's mining minister told Reuters on Friday.


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