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Ethiopian Commodity Exchange Traded Over 4.2 Billion Birr In 2009

published 236 days, 19 hours, 44 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 236 days, 20 hours ago
Sunday, January 10, 2010 3:40:43 AM GMT Sunday, January 10, 2010 3:24:37 AM GMT
The Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX) traded about 170,000 tonnes of coffee valued over 4.2 billion birr in 2009, said Eleni Z. G.Medhine, CEO of ECX. (more)
Digg It category: Economy | comment | | source: www.ezega.com tags: Coffee, economy, ECX, Ethiopia news, Ethiopian news

Traders offer up to 3mln birr for EXC membership

published 242 days, 19 hours, 46 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 242 days, 20 hours, 11 minutes ago
Monday, January 04, 2010 3:38:34 AM GMT Monday, January 04, 2010 3:13:47 AM GMT
Major players in the trade and agriculture industry offered up to three million birr for a full membership fee at the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange, it was learnt. The larg... (more)

Ethiopian Commodity Exchange to install 154 price tickers across the country

published 298 days, 20 hours, 18 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 298 days, 20 hours, 19 minutes ago
Monday, November 09, 2009 3:07:29 AM GMT Monday, November 09, 2009 3:05:44 AM GMT
The Ethiopia Commodity Exchange (ECX) said that it plans to install 154 price tickers across the country at a cost of close to $1.7 million within the next year and a half. (more)
Digg It category: Business | comment | | source: www.goodnewsethiopia.com tags: ECX, Ethiopia news, Ethiopian news

Ethiopia to launch online trading for agro-exports

published 310 days, 18 hours, 16 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 310 days, 18 hours, 48 minutes ago
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 5:08:50 AM GMT Wednesday, October 28, 2009 4:37:29 AM GMT
Ethiopia's newly established electronic commodity exchange plans to launch an online trading system aimed at doubling agricultural export income to $400 million in 2010 from $239 million, an official said. Solomon Edossa, chief technology officer in the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX), told Reuters on Tuesday that up to 20 online trading centres would be established in the main production hubs of commercial crops by the middle of 2010. (more)
Digg It category: Business | comment | | source: af.reuters.com tags: economy, ECX, Ethiopia news, Ethiopian news

Government-controlled ECX brings in face-saving "farmer"

published 313 days, 16 hours, 23 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 313 days, 16 hours, 23 minutes ago
Sunday, October 25, 2009 7:02:02 AM GMT Sunday, October 25, 2009 7:01:49 AM GMT
The government-controlled Ethiopia Commodity Exchange (ECX) has for the first time added a representative from a farmers' cooperative to its board of directors. (more)
Digg It category: Business | comment | | source: ethiomedia.com tags: business, ECX, Ethiopia news, Ethiopian news

Ethiopian Commodity Exchange is big business

published 324 days, 17 hours, 36 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 324 days, 17 hours, 38 minutes ago
Wednesday, October 14, 2009 5:49:19 AM GMT Wednesday, October 14, 2009 5:47:14 AM GMT
Can commodity markets succeed in Africa? The success of the Ethiopia Commodity Exchange (ECX) answers that question with a resounding “yes.” Eleni Gabre-Madhin, the founder and CEO of the ECX, told the Seventh Biennial U.S.-Africa Business Summit that the commodity exchange trades more than $300 million in coffee annually, along with four other key commodities; improves agriculture, trade and food security; and returns value to Ethiopian farmers. (more)
Digg It category: Business | comment | | source: en.afrik.com tags: business, ECX, Ethiopia news, Ethiopian news

Eleni Gabre-Medhin says commodity markets can succeed in Africa

published 329 days, 18 hours, 3 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 329 days, 18 hours, 47 minutes ago
Friday, October 09, 2009 5:22:32 AM GMT Friday, October 09, 2009 4:38:07 AM GMT
Eleni Gabre-Madhin, the founder and CEO of the ECX, told the Seventh Biennial U.S.-Africa Business Summit that the commodity exchange trades more than $300 million in coffee annually, along with four other key commodities; improves agriculture, trade and food security; and returns value to Ethiopian farmers. Washington D.C.  (October 8, 2009) – Can commodity markets succeed [...] (more)
Digg It category: Business | comment | | source: www.goodnewsethiopia.com tags: ECX, Ethiopia news, Ethiopian news

IFC Backs implementation of WHR Financing

published 332 days, 4 hours, 39 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 339 days, 6 hours, 38 minutes ago
Tuesday, October 06, 2009 6:46:28 PM GMT Tuesday, September 29, 2009 4:47:28 PM GMT
The private sector financing arm of the World Bank, IFC, is going to finance banks that are going to be involved in the Warehouse Receipt (WHR) financing scheme that the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX) is designing to implement in 2009/10 fiscal year. (more)
Digg It category: Business | comment | | source: www.addisfortune.com tags: ECX, Ethiopia news, Ethiopian news

Ethiopia heading for coffee monopoly

published 335 days, 17 hours, 21 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 339 days, 17 hours, 34 minutes ago
Saturday, October 03, 2009 6:03:56 AM GMT Tuesday, September 29, 2009 5:51:34 AM GMT
Eleni - Losing her credibility very fast The Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX) has in the past been accused by private coffee traders of being a catalyst for the government's morbid desire to bring the lucrative coffee sector under its control. The government is taking its coffee trading sectors even to remote areas.Now a government official warns that anyone acting out of the coffee... (more)