Author: InvestAdvocate

ECB holds rates, assesses inflation ‘danger zone’

The European Central Bank left interest rates at a record low on Thursday, holding off fresh action for now while it assesses whether it needs to respond to cost-of-living numbers weak enough to raise concerns about deflation. The decision to hold the main rate at 0.25 percent, which was widely […]

FOREX-Euro gains foothold after hitting lows before ECB

* Euro hit overnight after strong U.S. data, Fed * Fed minutes cautious on QE3 taper, but U.S. yields rise * No policy moves expected from ECB meeting, rhetoric eyed * Bullish sterling just off one-year high vs euro The euro recovered some ground ahead of a European Central Bank […]

A word of Advice to President Jonathan over the Sanusi Lamido’s letter

Thursday, January 09, 2014 10.44 AM / By Olusegun Adeniyi, Thisday (former spokesman to President Umaru Yar’Adua) Being a reproduction of Olusegun Adeniyi’s article in Thisday originally titled Lamido Sanusi’s Letter, Jonathan’s Burden? Sometime early in November last year, I saw a copy of a letter said to have been […]