By Yakubu LAAH InvestAdvocate Lagos (INVESTADVOCATE)-The Nigerian equities market on Friday ended the week on a positive note as all-share index and market capitalisation gained by 2.68 percent to close at 29,812.05 and N9.930 trillion respectively, according to the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) weekly report. The NSE reported that all […]
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Atlas’s Diamond Sees the Chance to Acquire Banks in Europe
Jan 23, 2015/Bloomberg Robert Diamond, the banker who had focused his post-Barclays Plc (BARC) career on investment in Africa, said he now sees a “terrific” opportunity to buy banks in Europe. “The opportunity for us as a merchant bank to acquire banks, not just in Africa, but really in the […]
Law Firm Says Nigeria, South Africa, Others to Boost African Listings by a Quarter in 2015
By Peter OBIORA InvestAdvocate Lagos (INVESTADVOCATE)-International law firm, Baker & McKenzie on Friday said if companies in Nigerian, South Africa, Egypt, Kenya, Morocco and Tunisia who planned to do initial public offerings (IPOs) do so, the number of listings could rise by a quarter in 2015, a Reuters report said. […]
