FX
- USD/ETB official (data as of 2026-04-30, today's session not yet in): buy 156.7401 / sell 158.3075. - EUR/ETB official (2026-04-30): buy 183.4956 / sell 185.3306. - GBP/ETB official (2026-04-30): buy 211.7872 / sell 213.9051. - USD/ETB Parallel (2026-05-01): buy 181.86 / sell 181.86 — gap vs latest official sell ≈ 14.9%. - Biggest official day-mover on the last printed session (2026-04-29): EUR/ETB at 0.83.
Macro
- FX Gap (Parallel vs Official): 17.5% as of 2026-04-26. - Other macro prints (inflation 9.7% YoY, NBE policy rate 15%, T-bill yield 12.4%) sit outside the 14-day window and are not refreshed today.
ESX
- Session reads flat across the board on 2026-05-01 — IBMM 12.00, WGBX 1,175.00, GDAB 1,000.00, AWAB 3,000.00, all with change 0 (consistent with a Labor Day-thin tape). - Latest non-zero move was 2026-04-30: IBMM -2.02% to 12.00. Week prior, AWAB's listing reference print on 2026-04-23 (3,011.19, +201.12) reflects the IPO/listing-day move, not a daily session change.
Watch
- Diesel supply restored: daily volume back to 9 million liters after two months at half-capacity tied to Hormuz/US-Israeli war disruption; Djibouti–Addis trucking resumed (Reporter, Apr 29). - Insurance reform: draft proclamation would open Ethiopia's insurance sector to foreign investment, ending decades of domestic-only ownership (Capital, Apr 28). - Ethiopian Airlines × Visa: partnership extended on co-branded payment cards (ENA, Apr 29). - Dashen Breweries names Matiyas Getachew CEO — first Ethiopian to lead a major brewery (Reporter, Apr 30). - Debt restructuring: official creditor committee rejected the in-principle Eurobond deal as failing comparability of treatment — bondholder/commercial creditor talks remain stalled (Reporter, Apr 18 — older but unresolved).