Hedge Fund Indaba Capital Nominates Two To Benefit focus Board
Hedge fund Indaba Capital has nominated two directors to Benefitfocus Inc’s board five weeks after publicly calling…
Activist Toshiba Shareholders Tipped To Win Crucial Vote On Independent Probe This…
In a watershed moment for Japanese corporate governance, Toshiba Corp shareholders will vote this Thursday on…
I Wish Dangote Refinery Existed Years Ago – Okonjo-Iweala
The Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, said Nigeria would have…
Investors Value China’s Ant Group At Over $200 Billion After IPO Halt…
Some of Ant Group’s global investors have valued the Chinese fintech firm at over $200 billion based on its 2020…
Rogers’ ‘Sweeteners’ For $16 Billion Shaw Takeover May Test…
Rogers Communications Inc’s efforts to secure its C$20 billion ($16 billion) acquisition of Shaw Communications Inc…
Federal Government Inaugurates National Livestock Breed Improvement Programme
The Federal Government on Monday inaugurated the National Livestock Breed Improvement Programme with the aim of…
Fintech Company Flutterwave Announces Partnership With PayPal
Flutterwave, the $1bn fintech company founded by Nigerian-born Silicon Valley enthusiast, Olugbenga Agboola, has…
Naira Exchanges For N481/$ At Parallel Market
The naira on Monday exchanged for N481/$ at the parallel market.
At the Exporter & Importer forex window,…
Inflation Hits 17.33% — Highest In Four Years
The consumer price index, which measures the rate of increase in the price of goods and services, increased to…
AFL-CIO Urges U.S. To Block Imports Of Solar Products From China’s Xinjiang
The leader of the AFL-CIO, the largest U.S. labor federation, is calling on the Biden administration and Congress…
Asia’s Fuel Exporters Target Sales Bump As Refineries Shut Down Under
Asian fuel exporters are hungrily eyeing Australia as the country’s shutdown of almost all its refineries creates a…
Investment In Clean Energy to Hit $131 Trillion By 2050 Agency Says
Planned investment in clean energy must increase by 30% to a total of $131 trillion by 2050 to avert catastrophic…
Germany’s Bafin Submits Insolvency Filing To Wind Up Greensill Bank, Court…
Germany’s financial regulator Bafin has submitted a filing to a court in Bremen to start insolvency proceedings for…
Germany Bets U.S. Will Make The Best Of ‘Bad Deal’ Nord Stream Gas…
Germany is betting the U.S. administration will take a pragmatic approach to the Nord Stream 2 project to ship…
Nokia To Cut Up To 10,000 Jobs Over Next Two Years
Finnish telecoms group Nokia said on Tuesday it plans to cut between 5,000 and 10,000 jobs within the next two…
AstraZeneca CEO Is ‘On A Hot Seat’: French Govt.
The chief executive of AstraZeneca - whose COVID-19 vaccine has been temporarily suspended in several European…
Citing Tailwind, Volkswagen Targets Profit Recovery
Volkswagen is confident that cost cuts will help it raise profit margins in the coming years, the world’s…
Zalando Aims For More Than 10% Of Europe Fashion Market
German online fashion retailer Zalando said it aims to capture more than 10% of the 450 billion euro ($536.54…
Brexit Won’t Mean Lower Capital For Insurers, Says Bank Of England
A review of rules for the insurance sector after Brexit will take time to complete, but it will not lead to any…
Brent Crude Heads Toward $70 As China Energy Demand Outlook Brightens
Oil prices rose on Monday, with Brent heading toward $70 a barrel, as data showed China’s economic recovery…
Suspension Of AstraZeneca Shots Is ‘Political Decision’: Italy’s…
The decision by Germany, France and Italy to suspend AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 shots after several countries reported…
European Markets Set To Open Higher On Recovery Hopes; Fed In Focus
European stocks are expected to open higher Tuesday as market attention focuses on the global economic recovery and…
Fed Likely To Pen Rosier Forecasts, But No Policy Shift Expected
Federal Reserve policymakers are expected this week to forecast that the U.S. economy will grow in 2021 at the…
Asian Stocks Follow Wall Street Higher Ahead Of Fed Meeting
An index of the region’s share markets excluding Japan strengthened 0.7%, led by a 1.2% jump in Australia’s…
News Corp Inks Australia Facebook Deal, Signalling Truce After Blackout
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp reached a content-supply deal with Facebook Inc in Australia, the companies said on…
Microsoft Rolls Back Update To Fix Access Issues For Thousands
Microsoft Corp said early on Tuesday glitches that affected access to workplace messaging app Teams, Outlook.com…
Diginex Projects Bitcoin Will Reach $175,000 By Year-End
The Trust Project is an international consortium of news organizations building standards of transparency…
ABCON Warns Black Market Forex Dealers
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)-licenced Bureaux De Change (BDC) operators have declared war on foreign exchange…
Criticisms Trail CBN’s Policy As Naira Weakens
The Naira depreciated by 1.04 per cent to N485 per dollar as the new Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN’s) Naira for…
WTO Concerned About Nigeria’s Foreign Exchange Management –…
The World Trade Organization director-general said on Monday that the WTO was concerned about Nigeria's foreign…