Business Dollar Can’t Catch A Break; Gold Shines Aug 5, 2020 0 It is shaping up to be yet another rough and rocky trading week for the battered Dollar as investors attack the…
Africa African Supply Bottlenecks Fuel Cobalt Price Surge Aug 5, 2020 0 Transport delays from South Africa against a backdrop of increasingly robust Chinese demand have fuelled a price…
Africa AU, African Leaders Urged To Fast Track High-Speed Rail Project Aug 5, 2020 0 African Union, AU, and leaders of the continent have been urged to fast track implementation of the high-speed rail…
Local 306 Nigerians Return Home From UAE Aug 5, 2020 0 At least 306 Nigerians stranded in the United Arab Emirates due to the coronavirus pandemic have returned home, the…
World The Stoppage Of 58 UK-Bound Doctors Aug 5, 2020 0 The attempt by some doctors to leave for the UK holds lessons for the country The recent prevention of 58…
Business Economy Faces A Bumpy Ride As It Enters Healing Phase Aug 5, 2020 0 The U.S. economy has entered the third stage of the coronavirus pandemic called the “healing phase,” according to…
World Novavax’s Coronavirus Vaccine Generates Promising Immune Response In Early Trial,… Aug 5, 2020 0 Novavax’s potential vaccine to prevent Covid-19 generated a promising immune response in an early stage clinical…
Business The Fed Is Expected To Make A Major Commitment To Ramping Up Inflation Soon Aug 4, 2020 0 The Federal Reserve is completing a year-long policy review and is expected to announce the results soon.One big…
Business Equity Markets Could Be Stuck In ‘Fat and Flat’ Range Aug 4, 2020 0 Mueller-Glissmann highlighted that the key driver of markets in recent months had not been optimism on growth, but…
Business Sterling Heads Lower After Early Gains Aug 4, 2020 0 Sterling edged lower on Tuesday erasing earlier gains as the U.S. dollar moved briefly higher, while fears of a…
World UK’s ‘Racist’ Visa Screening System Scrapped By Government After… Aug 4, 2020 0 Campaigners say some nationalities were automatically given a red traffic light risk score due to the system's…
Africa Africa’s Worst Stock Market Faces More Pain From Bank Earnings Aug 4, 2020 0 There is no recovery in sight yet for Africa’s worst-performing stock market as investors look to bank earnings…
Business Revival Of Ailing Industries Will Strengthen Currency — Expert Aug 4, 2020 0 Mr Promise Amahah, an economic expert says revamping ailing industries and economic diversification in the country…
Business Experts Seek Solution To Forex Challenge Facing Businesses Aug 4, 2020 0 Financial experts have said there is a need to address the foreign exchange challenge facing the manufacturing and…
Africa Import Restrictions, FX Fluctuations… Why Shoprite May Be Selling Stake In… Aug 4, 2020 0 Shoprite, Africa’s largest food retailer, told investors on Monday that it is considering a potential sale of ” all…
Business Dollar Stumbles As Investors Await U.S. Stimulus Breakthrough Aug 4, 2020 0 A rebound in the dollar faltered on Tuesday as political wrangling over a U.S. relief plan and the gloomy economic…
Local CBN’s Emefiele: ‘The Nigerian Situation Is A Challenging One’ Says Analyst Aug 4, 2020 0 In the second part of our series on the governors running the Central Banks of West Africa, we take a look at…
Business Gold Edges Back From Record Peak As Firm U.S. Data Dims Shine Aug 4, 2020 0 Gold was little changed on Tuesday, hovering below the previous session’s record peak as fears over the pace of…
World U.S. Government Begins Two Trials Testing Eli Lilly’s Coronavirus Antibody Drug Aug 4, 2020 0 The trials, called ACTIV-2 and ACTIV-3, will look at U.S. drugmaker Eli Lilly’s experimental treatment known as…
Business Ford’s Jim Hackett Is Out As CEO, To Be Succeeded By Jim Farley As Restructuring… Aug 4, 2020 0 Ford Motor CEO and President Jim Hackett will unexpectedly retire. Hackett, 65, will be succeeded by his heir…
Business Gold’s mega rally faces $2,000 hurdle, but for how long? Aug 4, 2020 0 Gold’s rally has halted just below $2,000 an ounce partly due to fierce technical resistance, but an eventual break…
Local Buhari Orders Payment Of Fees For Stranded NDDC Scholars Aug 4, 2020 0 The director, Corporate Affairs, NDDC, Mr. Charles Odili has disclosed that scholars of the Commission facing…
World The $600 Unemployment Boost Is Gone That Leaves Some With Just $5 A Week Aug 4, 2020 0 Congress didn’t extend a $600-a-week boost to unemployment benefits, which expired July 31. That leaves aid…
Business Uncertainty Over OPEC’s Plan To Raise Supply In August Aug 4, 2020 0 There is uncertainty over the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and allies’ plan to return…
Business European Stocks Retreat On Weak Earnings; Diageo Down 6.6% Aug 4, 2020 0 Investors will continue to monitor U.S. fiscal stimulus talks, with Congressional Democrats and the White House on…
Business Ports Economic Regulator And Automation Project Aug 4, 2020 0 For every maritime stakeholder, the mention of world big ports like Shanghai, China and Singapore rings a bell…
Business Turnover In I&E Forex Window Falls By 6% To $937m In July Aug 4, 2020 0 The volume of dollars traded (turnover) in the Investors and Exporters (I&E) window of the Nigerian foreign…
World Trump Says Nationwide Lockdown Would ‘Ultimately Inflict More Harm Than It Would… Aug 4, 2020 0 President Donald Trump insisted Monday that shutting down the United States in an attempt to curb the coronavirus…
Business Sterling’s Rally Runs Out Of Steam As Dollar Strengthens Aug 4, 2020 0 The pound’s month-long rally came to a halt on Monday, as dollar strength pushed sterling back down towards $1.30,…
World As Pandemic Stretches On, Retail Bankruptcies Approach Highest Number In A Decade Aug 4, 2020 0 2020 is on track to have the highest number of retail bankruptcies in a decade, according to S&P Global Market…