NAIROBI, Sept 6 (Reuters) - The following company

announcements, scheduled economic indicators, debt and currency

market moves and political events may affect African markets on

Friday.

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EVENTS:

*Seychelles and Mauritius' statistics offices are due to

release their respective consumer inflation data for August.

GLOBAL MARKETS

Asian shares clung to tight ranges and the dollar nursed

losses on Friday, with investors on tenterhooks ahead of

U.S. jobs data that could decide the size and speed of

coming rate cuts in the world's largest economy.

WORLD OIL PRICES

Oil prices edged up in early trading on Friday as investors

weighed a big withdrawal from U.S. crude inventories and a

delay to production hikes by OPEC+ producers against mixed

U.S. employment data.

EMERGING MARKETS

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SOUTH AFRICA MARKETS

The South Africa rand extended gains on Thursday as risk

sentiment improved on bets for a deeper interest rate cut

this month in the United States, analysts said.

AFRICA CURRENCIES

The Kenyan and Ugandan shillings are expected to hold steady

against the dollar in the next week to Thursday, while

Ghana's cedi and Zambia's kwacha could fall, traders

said.

NIGERIA PETROLEUM

Nigeria's state-oil firm will supply the Dangote Oil

refinery a total of 13 crude cargoes in October to ease

pressure on local gasoline supply, head of the firm's

downstream operations said on Thursday.

KENYA MARKETS

The Kenyan shilling eased slightly on Thursday due to

increased importer demand for dollars that outstripped

supply from remittances, tea exporters and

telecommunications companies, traders said.

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(Compiled by Nairobi Newsroom)