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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...

Oct 12 , 2025

Birr Drift Exposes Cracks in Managed Market

The Brewed Buck slipped again last week, exposing the quiet tension between official oversight and the underlying market forces that have shaped the foreign exchange scene for months. Between Octob...

Oct 5 , 2025

Guided Descent of the Brewed Buck Signals a Managed Drift, Not a Market Slide

The Brewed Buck has been guided rather than left to wander, yet last week offered a textbook study in how quietly an exchange rate can slip when policymakers keep a firm hand on the wheel. In that...

Sep 27 , 2025

Birr Inches Forward on Forex Market as Policy Pulls Back

The National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) entered the foreign exchange market last week with a calibrated display of resolve. On Monday, September 22, 2025, it posted a buying rate of 145.89 Br to a dollar...

Sep 21 , 2025

CBE Holds the Line, Private Lenders Push the Edges

The Birr (Brewed Buck) spent the past week threading its way through a narrow but choppy stretch of the foreign-exchange market, giving banks a clear view of the pressures bubbling beneath the currenc...

Columns

Commentaries | Aug 22,2026

Exports Record Worth Having. They Worth More as a Beginning

A record is a strange thing to worry about. Federal trade officials have booked the best e...

Editorial | Aug 22 , 2026

SMALL-NOTES SQUEEZE WORN, TORN, NEVER RETURNED

For Hirut Ayalew, a small shop owner around Ferensay Legasiyon, the shortage of usable sma...

Featured | Aug 1 , 2026 . By BIZUAYEHU ABIY

The City Wants to Widen Its Tax Net. Shops Feel It Tighten

The tax bill that reached Ferdos Debebe this year left little room in the tight finances o...

Agenda | Aug 22 , 2026 . By ABDUREUF JUHAR and FITSUM TADESSE

Central Bank Writes Rulebooks for Billion-Birr Market Already Exists

The forthcoming strategy for interest-free finance will place Sharia-compliant financing o...

Fortune News | Aug 22 , 2026 . By BEZAWIT HULUAGER