October 6, 2025/CSL Research The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has released its Business Expectations Survey (BES) for August 2025, providing insights into the outlook across key sectors—Industry, Services, and Agriculture. The findings show sustained optimism about Nigeria’s macroeconomic prospects, with the overall business confidence index rising to 28.9 points […]
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Good Policies (and Good Luck) Helped Emerging Economies Better Resist Shocks
(Credit: IMF Photo/James Mertz) October 6, 2025/IMFBlog By Marijn Bolhuis, Arindam Roy, Patrick Schneider, Zhao Zhang Emerging market economies have held up remarkably well in recent years, even after periods of global financial turbulence. While favorable external conditions (in other words, good luck) often helped, it’s clear that good policies matter. In the […]
Monthly Fixed Income Market Insight – September 2025
October 6, 2025/InvestmentOne Report The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) eventually cut benchmark interest rate at its September 2025 meeting, after holding rates constant since the last hike in November 2024. The 50bps cut brings the Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) to 27.00% following the […]
