Culled—Proshare May 20,2020 by FBNQuest Research                                                                                  We can add a little colour to the FGN’s fiscal thinking from local media coverage of a meeting held this month by the federal finance minister with civic society. The meeting predated the amended 2020 budget sent to the National Assembly (Good Morning […]

May 19, 2020/OilPrice.com Chart of the Week –    U.S. natural gas production is expected to decline by 2 percent in 2020, averaging 97.1 billion cubic feet (Bcf/d), down from 99.2 Bcf/d in 2019. –    Gas output was already expected to flatten heading into 2020, prior to the onset of […]

May 19, 2020/IMFBlog By Damiano Sandri The COVID-19 pandemic is impacting emerging markets through an unprecedented combination of domestic and external shocks. Among the latter, the pandemic has led to a sharp increase in global risk aversion and an abrupt retrenchment in foreign capital flows. Based on historical experience, these […]