Author: InvestAdvocate

FG’s positive drive of petroleum industry in 2013

Friday, January 10, 2014 12:06 PM: When year 2013 began, many Nigerians never gave the Federal Government any chance of making fruitful impacts in the petroleum industry. They thought the government would come up with its usual game of increasing the pump price of the Premium Motor Spirit (PMS). The […]

IOSCO seeks proper assessment of financial institutions

The Financial Stability Board and the International Organisation of Securities Commissions have published for public consultation ‘Assessment methodologies for identifying non-bank, non-insurer Global Systemically Important Financial Institutions, IOSCO has said in a statement. Systemically important financial institutions are institutions whose distress or disorderly failure, because of their size, complexity and […]

IMF Projects Mali’s GDP to Grow by 6.6% in 2014

By Peter OBIORA InvestAdvocate Lagos (INVESTADVOCATE)-The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Friday projected the growth of Mali’s real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to grow by 6.6 percent (6.6%) in 2014. This is coming on the heels of the first visit of Christine Lagarde, the Managing Director (MD) of the Fund to […]