Browsing by Author "Wamala, Deogratius"

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    Airtel shows how high returns can co-exist with rapid growth
    (Daily Monitor, 2026-02-28) Wamala, Deogratius
    Payout ratio. Airtel's dividends are backed by cash generated from operations. Airtel's 2025 results offer both reassurance and caution.
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    Blind spots in building and valuation law.
    (Daily Monitor, 2026-04-21) Wamala, Deogratius
    The Valuation Act did not emerge in a vacuum. On March 2, 2026, the Commercial Court held valuers liable for negligence after overstating property value. The ruling showed Uganda’s valuation profession lacked enforceable ethics, licensing, or accountability, prompting Parliament’s intervention.
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    Bond boom could turn into a forex shock.
    (Daily Monitor, 2026-03-10) Wamala, Deogratius
    Uganda remains an attractive frontier and emerging market for investors in capital markets for two main reasons: relatively strong macro fundamentals and an active domestic borrowing programme. Together, these factors keep yields elevated in both equities and bonds, widening net returns after taxes.
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    Bond market : loved, yet troubling for economists.
    (Daily Monitor, 2026-05-14) Wamala, Deogratius
    In today's markets, allocating capital has become a little easier particularly in economics where governments under fiscal pressure, compete for domestic liquidity by offering high risk free returns that effectively set the market's baseline.
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    Bond market pushes back on lower rates.
    (Daily Monitor, 2026-04-03) Wamala, Deogratius
    The recent behaviour of Uganda's bond market suggested a gentle easing in interest rates. With inflation subdued below the five percent policy benchmark and political pressures fading, yields appeared to be moving lower, in line with the preferences of Bank of Uganda.
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    BOU maintains tight policy as dollar, trade risks roil markets
    (Daily Monitor, 2026-02-15) Wamala, Deogratius
    Uganda’s economy is closely tied to global markets. Oil prices, geopolitical tensions and supply chain disruptions all influence domestic prices.
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    Dollar holders are having their moment.
    (Daily Monitor, 2026-03-27) Wamala, Deogratius
    If your dollars are idly sitting in your account, this might be the perfect time to cash out. Across the market, energy retailers, reacting to instability in the Middle East, a key oil channel, have quietly repriced their products, building in small premiums to collect more shillings.
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    Don't sell your entire plot to fix Shs20m problem.
    (Daily monitor, 2026-05-05) Wamala, Deogratius
    Wealth, in Uganda, has long worn the same face: a plot of land, a rental unit, a savings account earning just enough to feel responsible
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    Fragile power grid is forcing solar firms to think smarter.
    (Daily monitor, 2026-02-17) Wamala, Deogratius
    The Solar power sector has reached a critical inflection point. Ater several years of steady growth, in grid connected solar projects, expansion slowed because the national electricity grid cannot absorb much more variable renewable energy.
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    How chicken became Uganda's lucrative lie.
    (Daily Monitor, 2026-04-08) Wamala, Deogratius
    Fonzi schemes have a way of packaging themselves in whatever garb is most reassuring to their era.
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    How government's crypto ban created a shs4 trillion illegal market.
    (Daily Monitor, 2026-05-21) Wamala, Deogratius
    There is a particular kind of regulatory irony that only emerging markets can produce.
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    How Kenya arrived at Shs244.6 for pipeline IPO
    (Daily Monitor, 2026-02-18) Wamala, Deogratius
    Kenya is selling 65 percent of Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) to the public at Ksh9 (5244.6 per share, offering roughly 11.8 billion shares and valuing the company at about KSh163b (Shs4.4 trillion).
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    How world trade rules were written to keep Africa poor.
    (Daily Monitor, 2026-05-09) Wamala, Deogratius
    Developing countries were largely shown finished texts and asked to sign. Many had no practical choice: aid flows, debt relief, and market access were tied, explicitly or implicitly, to compliance.
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    IFRS 18 and the new income statement.
    (Daily Monitor, 2026-02-24) Wamala, Deogratius
    Accounting rules rarely make headlines. But every so often, a new rule quietly changes how companies explain their results. IFRS 18 is one of those rules issued by the International Accounting Standards Boards in April 204, it will replace the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) I and take effect for annual periods beginning on or after January 1, 2027.
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    Inside Uganda external debt currency problem
    (Daily Monitor, 2026-02-22) Wamala, Deogratius
    Nearly half of Uganda’s external debt—about 46 percent—is denominated in US dollars. The euro takes another big share at 35 percent. The Chinese yuan makes up only about 8 percent.
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    Inside Uganda industrial future.
    (Daily Monitor, 2026-03-17) Wamala, Deogratius
    For decade, the central question confronting economic like Uganda has been: why has so much effort not translated into prosperity? On the surface, the country does not lack entrepreneurial drive. Across cities and rural trading centres, small enterprises open early and close late, traders navigate thin margins and farmers adapt to unpredictable markets.
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    Is Gulu City Uganda’s most overlooked property market?
    (Daily Monitor, 2026-05-22) Wamala, Deogratius
    A post-conflict city torn by two decades of fighting, is rewriting its economic future through land, infrastructure and urban growth.
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    Minister Nankabirwa warns of higher fuel prices.
    (Daily Monitor, 2026-05-25) Wamala, Deogratius
    Two books five centuries of greed and everything they explain about the world we are living in right now.
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    MTN-URA tax row:
    (Daily Monitor, 2026-04-01) Wamala, Deogratius
    What began as a routine audit has evolved into one of Uganda's most closely watched tax disputes, pitting MTN against Uganda Revenue Authority (URA). At the centre of the conflict is not only the proper legal process was followed in arriving at it.
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    MTN: The investment many ignored, then scrambled for
    (Daily Monitor, 2026-05-08) Wamala, Deogratius
    In October 2021, Uganda Communications Commission handed MTN an ultimatum dressed up as a licensing condition. It was for the telecom to renew its operating licence, the one that lets it run a mobile network in the country, and in exchange, offer at least 20 percent of its shares to Ugandans.