Absence May Make Eurobond Investors Fonder Of Africa Issuers
Africa’s notable absence from the rush to the sell Eurobonds this month is set to change as the largest economies…
All The Bitcoin Lingo You Need To Know As Crypto Heats Up
Bitcoin’s back, baby. The best-known and largest cryptocurrency has gained more than 130% in pandemic-ravaged 2020…
Attack Of The Debt Tsunami’: Coronavirus Pushes Global Debt To Record High
The coronavirus crisis pushed global debt levels to a new high of over $272 trillion in the third quarter, the…
FEC Approves Finance Bill, Says No Tax Increase
The Federal Executive Council on Wednesday approved the 2020 Finance Bill for subsequent transmission to the…
ECB Can’t Go Bankrupt Even It Suffers Losses
The European Central Bank could “neither go bankrupt nor run out of money” even if it were to suffer losses on the…
Manufacturing Sector Recovers After Six-Month Contraction
The nation’s manufacturing sector has snapped out of the doldrums after contracting for six straight months, a new…
Nigeria: Manufacturing PMI Stages Recovery In November
The Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) stood at 50.2 index points in…
Dollar Loses To Euro As Payment Currency For First Time In Years
The euro was the most used currency for global payments last month, the first time it has outpaced the dollar since…
Naira Weakens Further As Dollar Sells For 478
The naira extended its decline on Wednesday at the parallel market as the United States dollar was sold for N478.…
Nigeria: 2021 Budget Report Ready On Dec 3
The Senate Committee on Appropriation on Wednesday promised to submit the harmonised version of the 2021 budget at…
Why CBN Licensed Payment Service Banks
Bank account ownership is quite compulsory in many developed countries of the world. Research shows that nearly…
Sterling Pushed Up By Weaker U.S. Dollar, Hopes Of Brexit Deal
Sterling traded at a one-week high on Wednesday, helped by a weaker U.S. dollar and by hopes that Britain will…
Sliding Dollar Steadies As Virus Worries Persist
The dollar nursed losses on Thursday following five sessions of declines as investors’ longer-term optimism about…
Nigeria Needs 19 Million New Jobs Yearly
The Chairman of the Presidential Economic Advisory Council, Prof. Doyin Salami, has said Nigeria needs to create 19…
Investors Gain N300bn As Equities Market Rebounds
Trading at the Nigerian equities market yesterday closed positive for the first time this week with a gain of N300…
Rewane Foresees Bright Economic Outlook For Nigeria In 2021
The Chief Executive Officer of the Financial Derivatives Company Limited (FDC), Mr. Bismarck Rewane has predicted…
Dollar Shortage Further Cracks Naira To N470
The Naira showed no sign of improvement on Wednesday as the incessant shortage of the United States Dollar at the…
Nigeria:N69.4bn Debt AMCON Seizes Jimoh Ibrahim’s Properties, Freezes Accounts
The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria has taken over 12 assets belonging to Chairman of Global Fleet Group,…
Nigeria: Manufacturing PMI Records Expansion After Six Months Contraction
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The Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) for November 2020 recorded expansion after six…
New York City To Close Public Schools Again As Virus Cases Rise
New York City’s entire public school system will shutter on Thursday, the schools chancellor Richard A. Carranza…
Nigerian Stock Exchange Members Back Flotation Plan
The Nigerian bourse won approval from its members on Wednesday for a stock market flotation that will turn the…
KLM Announces Return To Nigeria In December
Stories by David Agba with agency report KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Wednesday announced it would be resuming flights…
Nigeria: FEC Approves Finance Bill 2020
The Federal Executive Council (FEC), presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday approved the Finance…
Dollar Falls For Fifth Day As Vaccine Hopes Outweigh Spike In COVID Cases
The dollar slipped for a fifth straight session on Wednesday, sliding to a more than one-week low, as positive…
Yen Claws Back Ground As Looming Winter Chills Vaccine Cheer
The safe-haven Japanese yen sat near a one-week high and a steady U.S. dollar held commodity currencies in check on…
Nigeria’s Christians Become Target Of Genocide As International Community Remains…
The religious persecution of Christians in Nigeria is teetering on genocide, religious leaders and foreign policy…
COVID-19: Economic Crisis May Cause Banks To Fail Stress-Tests
The coronavirus pandemic has deeply impacted the situation in the world – especially the economic one. A lot of…
This Nigerian Researcher Studies The ‘Hidden Harvests’ Of Small-Scale Fisheries
With World Fisheries Day coming up on November 21, Nigerian researcher Kafayat Adetoun Fakoya is one of a huge…
UK Hopes To Get A Brexit Trade Deal, Business Minister Sharma Says
Britain hopes to get a Brexit trade deal but the European Union must understand that it is now dealing with a…
Just In: Pfizer Revises COVID-19 Vaccine Efficacy Score To 95%
Pfizer, along with its German partner BioNTech on Wednesday jacked up the efficacy score of its COVID-19 vaccine…