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QE and World Growth Buoy Global Rating Outlooks

September 22, 2017/Fitch Ratings Global rating outlooks remain on an improving trend and are on balance less negative than at the start of the year across most rating sectors. However, the improving outlook for global credit quality is underpinned by years of loose central bank monetary policy, including quantitative easing […]

CBN Communique 114 of the MPC Meeting of July 24-25, 2017, with Personal Statement of Members

September 19, 2017/CBN Adelabu, Adebayo The improvement in the performance of key macroeconomic variables, which commenced in the early part of the year, appears to have been fairly sustained. Recent statistics suggest that the economy may completely exit recession by the end of the third quarter, while a positive growth […]

[De]Globalisation and Inflation – Mark Carney – Governor, Bank of England

Culled—Proshare September 19, 2017/BoE Speech By Mark Carney, Governor Of The Bank Of England at the 2017 IMF Michel Camdessus Central Banking Lecture, 18 September 2017, London. During his term as Managing Director, Michel Camdessus oversaw the second great wave of globalisation.The Berlin Wall fell, capital controls were liberalised, the […]