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*ETHIOPIA - State-owned Ethio Telecom holds a news conference on the planned share sale of a 10% stake on the country's new bourse.

GLOBAL MARKETS

Asian equities fell on Wednesday after disappointing earnings from Europe's biggest tech firm ASML ASML.AS dragged chip stocks around the world, while expectations that the Federal Reserve will take a modest rate cut path propped up the dollar.nL4N3LS044MKTS/GLOB

WORLD OIL PRICES

Oil prices inched higher in early trade on Wednesday on uncertainty over what may happen next in the Middle East conflict, after demand concerns knocked the market to its lowest since early October in the previous session. nL1N3LS01ZO/R

EMERGING MARKETS

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AFRICA STOCKS

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SOUTH AFRICA MARKETS

South Africa's rand was little changed on Tuesday after the release of a local business confidence index and the central bank's bi-annual Monetary Policy Review.nL1N3LR0OW

NIGERIA INFLATION

Nigeria's inflation rate rose in September for the first time in three months, advancing to 32.70% in annual terms NGCPIY=ECI from 32.15% in August, the statistics agency said on Tuesday.nL1N3LR0BU

KENYA MARKETS

The Kenyan shilling KES= was unchanged against the dollar on Tuesday, data from the London Stock Exchange Group showed.nL8N3LR0AL

KENYA POLITICS

Kenya's courts on Tuesday declined to stop this week's Senate vote on Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua's impeachment from going ahead.nL8N3LR19W

JP MORGAN EXPANSION

JPMorgan Chase JPM.N, the largest U.S. lender, plans to enter Kenya and Ivory Coast this year and grow its footprint in Africa, CEO Jamie Dimon told Reuters.nL4N3LQ0QY

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