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Jan 31 , 2026

Central Bank Keeps a Tight Grip as the Birr Crawls Downward

Last week's sequence of foreign-exchange rates revealed a story more revealing than any headline auction figure. It showed a currency regime in which depreciation is administered rather than discovere...

Jan 24 , 2026

Birr Holds Steady as Banks Close Ranks

The foreign exchange last week displayed tranquillity, although the numbers revealed a market steered more than stirred. The Birr hardly “traded”, as commercial banks marched in lockstep, preserve...

Jan 17 , 2026

Forex Calm Masks a Market on Administrative Watch

The foreign exchange market continued to present a telling picture of a system guided more by administrative measures than by the spontaneous market forces of price discovery. The most remarkable a...

Jan 10 , 2026

Brewed Buck Inches Lower While Market Signals Break from Script

The Birr (Brewed Buck) is sliding again, but a casual glance at official screens would barely register motion. During the first week of January, from Friday through Saturday last week, it eased lower...

Jan 4 , 2026

At the Forex Market, the Real Rate Stays Out of Sight

The foreign exchange market unfolded last week not as a battleground for price discovery, but as an orchestrated routine. The posted rates for the Brewed Buck, Birr, against the Green Buck displayed a...

Dec 27 , 2025

Birr Creeps Higher as Central Bank Engineers Market Calm

The foreign-exchange market last week demonstrated the contours of a tightly managed currency regime under mounting pressure. Despite assertions by Central Bank Governor Eyob Tekalegn (PhD) that the e...

Dec 20 , 2025

Brewed Buck Keeps Falling Quietly on Policy's Terms

The official foreign exchange market showed signs of tightly calibrated depreciation over the past week. Despite a superficial calm, rates inching upward in decimal movements, the underlying mechanics...

Dec 13 , 2025

Small Banks Grab the Wheel of Forex Crawl

The foreign exchange market moved with careful precision last week, its trajectory subtle but its undercurrents revealing. The official exchange rate crept up by mere pennies, barely catching the eye...

Dec 6 , 2025

Marching Orders for the Birr Leave Floating in Recess

The Birr's cash market moved last week with the discipline of a parade instead of the clamour of traders shouting for a better price. For six straight days, rates crept upward in near-perfect formatio...

Nov 29 , 2025

Birr Slips Beyond 150 Threshold as Banks Form a New Floor

The Birr (Brewed Buck) slid another notch against the Green Buck last week, but the more telling development was where the slippage occurred. Every commercial bank quoted above 150 Br to the Greenback...

Nov 22 , 2025

Dollar Bites Harder. Banks Begin to Break Ranks

The foreign-exchange market rarely leaves room for surprises, but the six days through Saturday, November 22, 2025, delivered one. Private banks that had marched in step for months suddenly broke form...

Nov 16 , 2025

Banks Edge Up Dollar Rates as Central Bank Steers a Quiet Slide in the Birr

The foreign exchange market marched to a familiar, if deliberate, beat last week, with commercial banks pushing their dollar rates higher almost in lockstep and the Central Bank acting as a compass an...

Nov 8 , 2025

Forex Counters Splinter as Central Bank Tightens Grip

In a telling departure from their typically synchronised moves, foreign exchange counters slipped into a quiet fragmentation last week, with private banks pulling in diverging directions while the Cen...

Nov 2 , 2025

Brewed Buck Eases as Banks Shadow Central Bank Rate in Tight Formation

The Birr (Brewed Buck) spent the past week on a mild slide before steadying, a move that unfolded in near-perfect step with the National Bank of Ethiopia's (NBE) shifting reference rate and left comme...

Oct 26 , 2025

Banks Tighten in Unison as Forex Rates Edge Toward New Equilibrium

The Birr (Brewed Buck) has been walking down a narrow slope for months, sliding a little each week as monetary policymakers test how far they can let it fall without stoking a new burst of inflation....

Oct 18 , 2025

In Fragmented March, Brewed Buck Slips as Banks Break Ranks

The Birr's (Brewed Buck) seemingly orderly 1.1pc depreciation last week belied a more fractured reality. While the Central Bank's policy glide path continues to maintain the illusion of stability, ben...

Columns

Commentaries | May 30,2026

Mistaking Development Theatre for Public Trust Has a Cost

Tomorrow, millions of Ethiopians are expected to vote in the seventh national elections. A...

Editorial | May 30 , 2026

Addis Abeba Pours a New Story in Every Cup, Where Tradition Meets Global Influence

Customers settle into a carefully curated space of dark wood, black accents, muted green f...

Featured | May 31 , 2026 . By HELINA HADGU

Ethiopians to Vote Under the Shadow of a Foregone Outcome

Kassahun Follo's plan to keep an eye on the national polls set for Monday, June 1, 2026, e...

Agenda | May 31 , 2026 . By NAHOM AYELE and YEABSIRA TAYE

Electoral Board Rushes to Defend Vote Count Amid Delays, Disputed Videos

The national electoral board has dismissed two employees for procedural violations while c...

Fortune News | Jun 2 , 2026