March 6, 2026/Oilprice.com Tom Kool Editor, Oilprice.com Brent tops $90 as the Strait of Hormuz closure halts Gulf oil flows and Iraq and Kuwait begin cutting output, fueling fears of a sharper price surge. Friday, March 6, 2026 When a US President declares that there would be no deal with […]
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Q4′ 25 GDP Report: Broad-Based Recovery Anchored by Services and Agriculture Resilience
March 5, 2026/Coronation Report Summary In line with our GDP forecasts of 4.02% for Q4’25 and 3.82% for FY’25, Nigeria’s real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) expanded by 4.07% y/y in Q4’25, increasing from 3.98% in Q3’25 and 3.76% in Q4’24, indicating sustained economic recovery. Nominal GDP remained robust, increasing by […]
Adequate Reserves Shield Economies From Shocks and Strengthen Resilience
(Credit: malija/iStock by Getty Images) International reserves Building foreign exchange reserves requires sound policies and takes time, but global efforts to lower the cost of holding them can help March 5, 2026/IMFBlog By Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas Participants at Saudi Arabia’s Al-Ula conference in February rightly lauded emerging market economies’ impressive resilience since the global financial […]
