OPINION/EDITORIAL

Oil Prices Slide Despite Supply Disruption

September 7, 2021/OilPrice.com Chart of the Week – Europe is struggling to contain a double whammy of high natural gas and electricity prices, just as it had been bouncing back from a prolonged slump, Bloomberg reports.  – The gas replenishment rate in Europe’s gas storage sites has continued to slow […]

Interest Rates and Banks’ Margins

September 7, 2021/Coronation Research At the end of the second quarter of the year we wrote about how Nigerian banks were moving lending rates in order to accommodate rising market interest rates (see Coronation Research: Nigerian Banks, Resilience Built In, 25 June). Since then market interest rates, and interbank lending […]

eNaira- Yay or Nay?

September 7, 2021/Coronation Research In a recent press statement, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) stated its plans to  launch its Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) pilot scheme called the eNaira  on 1 October 2021 with Bitt Inc, a financial technology company that utilises  blockchain and distributed ledger technology to […]