January 12, 2020/OilPrice.com Chart of the Week –    Roughly 9.1 gigawatts of electricity capacity are slated for retirement in 2021 in the United States. –    Nuclear power will account for 51% of that total, with coal accounting for 30%. –    48 GW of coal capacity has shut down in the […]

January 12, 2021/Proshare by FBNQuest Research The stock market in Lagos outshone both Nairobi (NSE20) and Jo’burg (all-share) by a wide margin in 2020, gaining 50.0% over the full year. When we note that the NSEASI was still in negative territory ytd as late as 30 September, then the surge […]

DATA POINTS January 11, 2021/IMFBlog By Nicoletta Batini and Miguel Segoviano Denmark aspires to become one of the most climate-friendly countries in the world. In June, its Parliament overwhelmingly passed a new climate law that aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 70 percent below 1990 levels by 2030, with […]