Markets · GabaawwanSeptember 17, 2026
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The exchange approves eleven companies to list, and names none of them

Gabaan dhaabbilee kudha tokkoof hayyama kenne; maqaa garuu hin dhoofne

The skyline of Addis Ababa, where the exchange is based.
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ByThe Ensight deskCompiled from the sources named · 1 min read

Posted 7 Meskerem 2019 E.C. · 11:00 EAT (5:00 Ethiopian time) · Published by Ensight (Mo Creatives) · Photograph Simfan34 · CC BY-SA 3.0

Yodit Kassa, chief executive of the Ethiopian Securities Exchange, told Bloomberg in Nairobi that eleven companies have approval in principle to list and that the first, a financial services firm, begins trading the following week. Six companies are on the main market today. Neither the exchange nor the Capital Market Authority has published the list.

Source: Ethiopian Securities Exchange, via Bloomberg

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