OPINION/EDITORIAL

Uncertainty Brings An End To The Oil Price Rebound

February 18, 2020/OilPrice.com –    Devon Energy’s (NYSE:DVN) transition from a gas-weighted asset portfolio towards a rather one-sided focus on US onshore oil seems to be paying off as the US firm’s Q4 earnings, to be published this evening, are expected to surpass expectations. –    Extraction Oil & Gas (NASDAQ:XOG) has […]

Fiscal Policies For Women’s Economic Empowerment

February 18, 2020/IMFBlog By Stefania Fabrizio, Daniel Gurara and Lisa Kolovich Making sure that opportunities to enter the workforce are fair and rewarding for women benefits everyone. Yet, the average female workforce participation rate across countries is still 20 percentage points lower than the male rate, largely because gender gaps […]

January 2020: Consumer Prices to Firm on Rising Food Prices

February 18, 2020/Cordros Report In our December inflation note, we had argued that consumer prices would firm up, on account of (1) the sustained border closure, and (2) the unfavourable low base. In line with our call, headline inflation rose by 12.13% y/y in January 2020, the highest since April […]