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Dollar Holds Gains After Hawkish Fed Comments
The dollar held most gains against basket of currencies on Thursday after hawkish comments from the U.S. Federal…
FG Considers Blueprint To Reposition Free Trade Zones
Trade Zones - PUNCH
AUGUST 05, 2021
BY Amarachi Orjiude
The Federal Government has called on…
Merits In CBN Stoppage Sales Of Forex To BDCs
The latest Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) decision to stop the sale of forex to Bureau De Change (BDC) operators…
Biden To Aim For 50% EVs By 2030 With Industry Support
U.S. President Joe Biden will sign an executive order on Thursday aimed at making half of all new vehicles sold in…
Futures Rise Head Of Weekly Jobless Claims Data
U.S. stock index futures rose on Thursday ahead of data expected to show fewer Americans filed for unemployment…
ByteDance To Close Some Tutoring Ops After Clampdown – Sources
TikTok owner ByteDance told employees on Thursday it planned to lay off staff in its education business and close…
Tesla Chair Denholm Sells Shares Worth More Than $22 Mln
Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) chair Robyn Denholm sold more than $22 million worth of shares in the electric-car maker after…
Stocks Making The Biggest Moves Premarket: Moderna, Cigna, Penn National, Wayfair…
Moderna (MRNA) – Moderna shares fell 2.4% in the premarket, despite reporting better-than-expected earnings and…
Sterling Steady Above $1.39 Before Bank Of England Meeting
Sterling steadied around $1.39 against the dollar on Wednesday, buoyed by risk sentiment in markets, optimism over…
Biden To Push For Electric Vehicles To Make Up 40% Or More Of United State Auto…
President Joe Biden will set a new national target for the adoption of electric vehicles on Thursday, calling for…
European Markets Inch Higher As Investors Watch Earnings, Bank Of England; Adidas…
European markets inched cautiously higher on Thursday morningas investors digested more corporate earnings and…
JAIZ Bank’s Profit Grows By 70%
Jaiz Bank Plc has said its profit after tax rose by 70.1 per cent growth to N1.9bn in the first half of 2021 from…
SEC, Issuers Parley To Attract More Listings As Index Rises By 0.03%
The Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Lamido Yuguda has stated that the Securities…
Banking, Industrial Stocks Drive N5bn Market Gain
The banking and industrial indices drove a N5.13bn gain for stock investors amidst negative market sentiment.…
Adidas Raises Outlook Despite Falling Sales In China As Boycott There Continues
Adidas has increased its outlook for the year, despite a drop in sales in China where some consumers have boycotted…
NNPC Buys $2.76bn Stake In Dangote Refinery
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation(NNPC) is forging ahead with its plans to buy 20 percent stake in the…
Different From Bitcoin’ — What You Need To Know About ENaira, CBN’s Proposed…
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has announced that it will launch the pilot scheme of its digital…
Oil Settles Lower In Volatile Trade On Worries About Delta Variant
Oil settled lower on Tuesday, as concern about rising cases of the Delta coronavirus variant outweighed…
JPMorgan Blames Turkey’s Volatile Lira For Investor Misgivings
The lira’s best month this year may only serve to highlight the volatility that still haunts Turkish assets.
For…
Oritsejafor: Domestic Investors Will Continue To Dominate Equities Market
Managing/Chief Executive Officer of United Capital Securities Limited, Mr. Bawo Oritsejafor in this interview with…
Shipping Losses At Historic Lows, As Covid, Mega-Ship Remain Challenge – Allianz
The international shipping industry continued its long-term positive safety trend over the past year but…
Mambilla: FG Directs NSIA To Source $200m Judgment Debt For Chinese Firm
The Federal Government has directed the Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority to source $200m for settlement of…
Yen Libor Death Knell Sounds As Traders Close In On Replacement
The hunt for a benchmark to replace yen Libor is gaining ground, with Japan’s traders leaning toward the Tokyo…
Foreign Investors Withdraw N116.72bn From Stock Market In Six Months
The Nigerian Exchange Limited has revealed that foreign investors in the equities market withdrew a total of…
DMO Offers FG Savings Bonds For Subscription At N1,000 Per Unit
The Debt Management Office (DMO) has announced an offering for the federal government of Nigeria (FGN) savings…
Zainab Ahmed: Nigeria Imported 400,000 Vehicles In 5 Years
Ahmed said this during a sensitisation programme on the national vehicle registry (VREG) platform in Kano on…
Cargo Haulage Cost Falls By 70% In 1 Month Over Low Import
The cost of cargo haulage from the Lagos ports has dropped by about 70 percent in the last one months, importers…
CBN Sets N1m As Application Fee For Payment Service Holding Company Licence
Musa Jimoh, CBN’s director of payments system management department, announced this in a circular on Tuesday.…
BDC’s Damage To Nigeria’s Economy Colossal – Finance Expert
International finance expert and CEO, FB Services Group, Canada Dr. Akin Oladeji John Brown has decried what he…
Mixed Reactions Trail CBN’s Hammer On Forex Sales To BDCs
The Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) decision to stop forex sales to Bureau De Change (BDC) operators has continued…