Julia Monti | December 2, 2015/MasterCard The holiday season is off to a solid start, according to MasterCard SpendingPulse, which looks at U.S. retail sales trends across cards, cash and checks. Retail sales excluding auto and gas grew 4.6 percent in November compared to last year. Four-day Thanksgiving weekend sales […]

By Peter OBIORA InvestAdvocate Lagos (INVESTADVOCATE)-The Nigerian Equities market on Wednesday sustained its bearish streak as all share index (ASI) declined 0.10 percent to close at 27,287.89 basis points, while market capitalisation dipped by N8.98 billion to N9.38 trillion. Cordros daily market update reports today’s loss extended the Month-to-Date (M-t-D) […]

By InvestAdvocate Lagos (INVESTADVOCATE)-The power unit of Nigeria’s top conglomerate, Transnational Corporation of Nigeria Plc (Transcorp) has announced Transcorp Ughelli Power Limited and Ughelli Power Plc has now transformed to Transcorp Power Limited coming on the heels of a successful merger. “This marks a significant milestone in the corporate history […]