GLOBAL MARKETS
Amara Okafor reports on Africa's exchanges — Johannesburg, Casablanca and Cairo — along with Asia's big markets and digital assets, with an eye on what global flows mean for emerging economies.
AI-assisted byline of the B-Empire Finance desk: articles are written with AI from live market data and attributed headlines, and every figure is checked against the data. How it works.
Amara OkaforMorocco's MASI posted the strongest session among the African markets we track, Cairo's EGX 30 extended a 22.25% year, and JSE decliners outnumbered advancers.
Amara Okafor583 of 600 Japanese large caps fell on Friday. Hong Kong and Shanghai also slipped, but Mumbai's benchmark rose 2.01% to cap a strong week.