- NGX to Introduce Volume-Based Price Rules in Major Market Reform
- FX Spread Surges as Naira Depreciates Across FX Markets
- U.S. Consumer Momentum Slows as Inflation Squeezes Incomes
- Burundi Economy Improves, Inflation Sinks to 8.6% from 45% – IMF
- United Nations Urges Africa to Boost Domestic Funding
- US Dollar Hits 1-Year High on US Fed Hawkish Rates Bets
- Nigerian Exchange Sheds N2.18trn as Dangote Companies Dip
- XRP Price Dips 6.2% on U.S. Federal Reserve Rates Hike Bets
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Price Instability: CBN Projects 14.15% Inflation Rate for 2020. The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) said it is expecting inflation rate to hover around 13.97% and 14.15% by December 2020, a wide gap from its single-digit inflation targeting of 6% to 9%.
Neither Buy, nor Sell Stanbic IBTC Share, Analysts Advised Investors. Stanbic IBTC Holdings Plc posted an impressive first half of 2020 result underpinned by double-digit growth in the bottom line amidst economic challenges worsen by COVID-19 pandemic.
Naira Depreciates Despite Foreign Exchange Sales Resumption. Against expectation, the Nigerian local currency, naira, depreciates despite the resumption of the apex bank weekly intervention foreign currency (FX) sales.
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