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Google Delays Office Return Until January As COVID-19 Worries Linger
Alphabet Inc-owned (GOOGL.O) Google is extending its voluntary return-to-office policy through January next year,…
Dollar At 3-Week Lows As Traders Await Tapering Clues
The dollar was trading near three-week lows against a basket of currencies on Tuesday, as investors looked to U.S.…
Gold Prices Edge Back Towards 1-Month Peak As Dollar, Yields Slip
Gold prices rose back towards the previous session’s four-week high on Tuesday, supported by a weaker dollar and a…
Dollar Crunch Turns Nigerian Banks Into Africa’s Cheapest Stocks
Nigerian banks are some of the cheapest stocks in Africa, more evidence of how a shortage of dollars in the…
Stocks Sit Near Record Highs As Jobs Report Looms
A gauge of global equities headed for its seventh consecutive month of gains on Tuesday, but stocks and the dollar…
Euro Zone Inflation Surges To 10-Year-High, In Headache For ECB
Euro zone inflation surged to a 10-year-high in August with further rises likely, challenging the European Central…
Prosus Doubles Down On India With $4.7 Bln Deal For BillDesk
Prosus NV (PRX.AS) doubled down on its investment in India on Tuesday with a $4.7 billion deal for payments…
Canada’s Economy Posts Surprise Contraction In Q2 Amid Election Campaign
Canada’s economy unexpectedly shrank in the second quarter and likely had far less momentum than had been expected…
Digital Currency Gains Traction As Central Bank Of Nigeria Appoints Technical…
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) yesterday announced the formal engagement of global fintech company, Bitt Inc.,…
Treasury Yields Dip As Jobs Data Remains In Focus
Treasury yields dipped on Tuesday morning, as investor focus remained on a key jobs report due out later in the…
Robinhood Shares Tumble After PayPal News, SEC Scrutiny Of Key Revenue Stream
Shares of Robinhood Markets Inc (HOOD.O), a popular gateway for trading meme stocks, tumbled nearly 7% on Monday on…
Dollar Scarcity Drives Naira Further Down At Black Market
Naira weakened significantly against the U.S. dollar at the black market on Monday, as it touched an all-time low…
Nigeria: CBN States Transfer Limits As E-Naira Begins Oct 1
The Central Bank of Nigeria has announced the formal engagement of the global Fintech Company, Bitt Inc., as the…
CBN Selects Bitt Inc Digital Currency As Technical Partner For Digital Currency…
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has engaged Bitt Inc., a global Fintech company, as the Technical Partner for…
Foreign Portfolio Investments Drop On Forex Crisis
Foreign portfolio investments (FPIs) in Nigeria have dropped to their lowest level in more than eight years as…
Banks To Promote Adoption Of ENaira As CBN Mulls October 1 Pilot
Nigerian deposit money banks (DMBs) are set to market and promote the adoption of eNaira as a digital version of…
Slumping Asian Currencies Face More Risk From Slowdown In China
Hong Kong's shopping districts are dotted with money changers advertising their remittance services and conversion…
Emirates Extends Suspension Of Flights From Nigeria Till September 5
Emirates Airlines has extended the suspension of flights from Lagos State and Abuja airports to Dubai till…
Dangote’s $2bn Petrochemical Plant To Produce 77 Grades Of Polypropylene
Dangote’s $2 billion Petrochemical Plant located in Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos State, is designed to produce 77 different…
European Markets Trade Higher, Reflecting Buoyant Global Sentiment
European stocks were trading slightly higher on Monday, reflecting broadly positive trade in global markets…
Australian Miner Fortescue’s Shares Soar After Reporting Record Profit
Shares of Australian miner Fortescue soared over 6% on Monday, as the mining giant reported full-year profits that…
Atedo Peterside Doubts Nigeria’s NNPC N287bn Profit, Challenges Corporation
Founder of IBTC Stanbic Bank, Atedo Peterside, has challenged the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation to…
Stock Market Rebounds As Capitalisation Rises By N15 Billion
As price gains outweighed losses, transactions on the equities sector of the Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX) closed…
Turnover In FMDQ Exchange Drops 56% YoY As Investors Pull N29trn In T-Bills
Investment activities in the Fixed Income and Currencies (FIC) markets suffered a setback to the tune of about…
New IMF Allocation’ll Boost Nigeria, Others’ Reserves – AfDB
The President of the African Development Bank, Akinwumi Adesina, has said the International Monetary Fund’s Special…
Why Fed’s Powell Still Thinks High Inflation Is ‘Temporary’
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Friday pushed back against concerns that swiftly rising prices could become…
CBN Drafts Guidelines To Nigerian Banks On E-Naira
The CBN recently sent a presentation to Nigerian banks about the eNaira project, revealing more details about its…
Diaspora Remittances Hit $34bn As Nigerian Migrant Workers Top List
The Naira4Dollar policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) may have begun to yield dividends as remittances from…
Zero-Commission Fight Reaches Canada As National Bank Ends Fees
The move to commission-free trading that’s swept through U.S. discount brokerages over the past two years may…