BusinessMarket Stock Market Rebounds As Capitalisation Rises By N15 Billion byEkeminiAugust 30, 2021 As price gains outweighed losses, transactions on the equities sector of the Nigerian Exchange Limited… Read More
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BusinessMarket New IMF Allocation’ll Boost Nigeria, Others’ Reserves – AfDB byEkeminiAugust 30, 2021 The President of the African Development Bank, Akinwumi Adesina, has said the International Monetary Fund’s… Read More
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BusinessMarket CBN Drafts Guidelines To Nigerian Banks On E-Naira byEkeminiAugust 30, 2021 The CBN recently sent a presentation to Nigerian banks about the eNaira project, revealing more… Read More
BusinessInvestingMarket Diaspora Remittances Hit $34bn As Nigerian Migrant Workers Top List byEkeminiAugust 30, 2021August 30, 2021 The Naira4Dollar policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) may have begun to yield… Read More
BusinessMarket Zero-Commission Fight Reaches Canada As National Bank Ends Fees byEkeminiAugust 30, 2021 The move to commission-free trading that’s swept through U.S. discount brokerages over the past two… Read More
BusinessMarket FG Yet To Recover N5.15tn Debt, Says Minister byEkeminiAugust 28, 2021 The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, indicated on Friday that… Read More
BusinessMarket Oil Heads For Biggest Weekly Gains In Over A Year Ahead Of Storm Ida byEkeminiAugust 28, 2021 Oil prices rose more than 2% on Friday and were on track for their biggest… Read More
BusinessLocalMarket France Ready To Market Nigeria Back Home-Ambassador byEkeminiAugust 27, 2021 The France Ambassador to Nigeria, Jerome Pasquire, has said his country is fully committed to… Read More
BusinessMarket Dollar, Euro, Sterling Await Powell’s Jackson Hole Speech byEkeminiAugust 27, 2021 The dollar, euro and sterling steadied on Friday as investors waited for a highly anticipated… Read More
BusinessMarket Oil Sector’s Contribution To Nigeria’s GDP In Q2 2021 Wanes byEkeminiAugust 27, 2021 On Thursday, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew… Read More
BusinessMarket PIA To Strengthen Naira, Reduce Budget Deficit-PwC byEkeminiAugust 27, 2021 PwC Nigeria said the 2021 Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) will facilitate Nigeria’s economic development by… Read More
BusinessMarket NNPC Declares N287bn After Tax Profit In 2020 – Buhari byEkeminiAugust 27, 2021 President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday disclosed that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), for the… Read More
BusinessMarket Pound Hits Over 1-Week High As Powell Comments Knock Dollar byEkeminiAugust 27, 2021 Britain’s pound jumped half a percent to the dollar to more than a week’s high… Read More
BusinessMarket Keeping Monetary Policy Loose Can Help Labor Reallocation -Paper byEkeminiAugust 27, 2021 Global central banks could do well to keep interest rates low for as long as… Read More
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MarketOpinionWorld Fed is Stoking Another Real Estate Price Bubble That Will Wipe Out Home Equity, Investor Peter Boockvar Warns byakintundeAugust 27, 2021 Investor Peter Boockvar is sounding the alarm on a housing price bubble brought on by… Read More
AfricaLocalMarket Nigeria:Stock Market Rebounds As Capitalisation Rises By N15 Billion byakintundeAugust 27, 2021 As price gains outweighed losses, transactions on the equities sector of the Nigerian Exchange Limited… Read More
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BusinessMarket World Remit Raises $292m, Rebrands As Zepz byEkeminiAugust 26, 2021 Digital Money Transfer firm, World Remit, now Zeps has has announced that it raised $292… Read More
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BusinessLocalMarket NNPC Pegs 2022 Base Oil Price At $57/Barrel byEkeminiAugust 26, 2021August 26, 2021 The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation on Wednesday provided a base crude oil price scenario in… Read More
BusinessMarket Nigeria’s Real GDP Grew By 5.01% YoY In Q2 2021 From 0.51% In Q1 2021 byEkeminiAugust 26, 2021 Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by 5.01%(year-on-year) in real terms in the second quarter… Read More
AfricaLocalMarket Nigeria: Importation Of Petroleum Products Will Soon Be Over byakintundeAugust 26, 2021August 27, 2021 Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), yesterday, assured Nigerians that the importation of petroleum products into… Read More
MarketWorld European Stocks Set To Retreat As Global Markets Subdued Ahead Of Fed Symposium byakintundeAugust 26, 2021 European shares are set to pull back Thursday, with global markets striking a cautious tone… Read More
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MarketWorld South Korea Hikes Interest Rates, The First Developed Economy To Do So In Pandemic Erah Korea hikes interest rates, the first developed economy to do so in pandemic era byakintundeAugust 26, 2021 South Korea’s central bank raised interest rates on Thursday in a decision that was expected as financial… Read More
BusinessMarket S&P 500, Nasdaq Notch All-Time Closing Highs Ahead Of Jackson Hole byEkeminiAugust 25, 2021August 25, 2021 Wall Street gained ground again on Wednesday, with chipmakers and financials helping to push the… Read More
AfricaBusinessMarket South Africa Rebases GDP, Revises Economic Growth Figures byEkeminiAugust 25, 2021 South Africa has rebased its gross domestic product (GDP) survey, with the new data showing… Read More