(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 […]
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Q4:2025 GDP Report-Nigeria’s Economy Closes 2025 on a High Note
March 4, 2026/InvestmentOne Report The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) reports that, Nigeria s real GDP grew by 4.07% in Q4:2025, up from 3.76% YoY in Q4:2024, marking the strongest quarterly outturn since Q2:2025. Growth was broad-based across agriculture, industry and services, supported by easing inflationary pressures, a stable foreign […]
External Reserves Hit Record Highs Amid Renewed Investor Confidence
March 4, 2026/CSL Research The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Olayemi Cardoso revealed that the net external reserves, which exclude short-term foreign currency obligations, grew by about 50.5% year-on-year (y/y) to US$34.8 billion by the end of last year. Complementing this, the gross external reserves rose to […]
