September 23, 2025/IMFBlog IMF COUNTRY FOCUS (Credit: Gianfranco Vivi/iStock by Getty Images) In early June, the IMF approved a two-year Flexible Credit Line (FCL) for Costa Rica. This followed the Central American nation’s years-long and ambitious reform agenda, which has helped to increase growth, lower debt, and reduce poverty, while also boosting […]
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Blue Chips Drag Nigerian Stocks to -0.4% Loss
September 23, 2025/Cordros Report EQUITIES The local bourse closed today’s session on a negative note, as selloffs in GTCO (-3.2%), WAPCO (-4.0%), DANGSUGAR (-10.0%) and ACCESSCORP (-5.0%) drove the All-Share Index lower by 0.4% to 140,929.60 points. Consequently, the Month-to-Date and Year-to-Date returns moderated to +0.5% and +36.9%, respectively. The […]
Economic Outlook
September 23, 2025/US Federal Reserve By Chair Jerome H. Powell Thank you. It is a pleasure to be back here in Rhode Island. The last time I had the opportunity to speak to the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce was in the fall of 2019. I noted then that, “if […]
