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MasterCard Announces Partnership with NewsDeeply Ahead of SDG Summit

September 4, 2015/MasterCard With the world’s attention turning to the post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda later this month, the MasterCard Center for Inclusive Growth, in collaboration with News Deeply, today launched the Inclusion Hub, an innovative pop-up content portal featuring original reporting and educational content on advancing sustainable growth. The site, […]

Nigeria’s Inflation Rises to 9.3% in August-NBS

By Yakubu LAAH InvestAdvocate Lagos (INVESTADVOCATE)-Nigeria’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) which measures inflation climbed up higher to 9.3 percent (year-on-year), from 9.2 percent in July. The National Bureau of Statistics in its latest monthly report says the marginal increase was as a result of slower increases in Alcoholic Beverages, Tobacco […]

Nigeria financial markets suffer after JP Morgan index expulsion

Wed Sep 9, 2015/Reuters * JP Morgan evicts Nigeria from key emerging market bonds index * Move comes amid policy vacuum, decline in stocks * President has not named cabinet since taking office in May * Index expulsion forces fund managers to sell bonds (Adds market closing and dollar denominated […]