September 25, 2020/OilPrice.com With oil prices having rebounded above $40 last week on the back of inventory draws and hurricane outages, bearish sentiment returned to markets this week due to a second wave of COVID-19 threatening to shut down European economies once again. Friday, September 25th, 2020 Oil prices continue […]

September 25, 2020/IMFBlog By Bernardin Akitoby, Jiro Honda, and Keyra Primus The COVID-19 shocks are proving to be especially challenging for fragile states. Pre-COVID, fiscal revenues were low in such countries and governments were struggling to raise them. Now, COVID-19 is hitting them hard and fiscal revenues are falling. Once […]

Culled—Proshare September 25, 2020 By FDC Ltd  Nigeria, South Africa and Ghana are three of the largest economies in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) with a collective economic size that is 49.37% of the region’s GDP. They are also the most affected by the coronavirus, accounting for 66.39% of total infections […]