OPINION/EDITORIAL

Primary Market Interest Rates and the Currency

October 21, 2019/Coronation Report In this week’s Nigeria Weekly Update we make the careful distinction – which we first observed last week – between risk-free one-year Naira rates in primary market auctions and those realised in the secondary markets. Usually these are almost exactly the same but recently they have […]

Why Don’t We Fight Wars Over Carrots?

October 18, 2019/OilPrice.com What are the geopolitics of carrots? It’s an odd question to ask, but one posed by veteran oil analyst Professor Paul Stevens at the LNGgc conference held October 9-10 in London. The point of the question is that carrots do not have geopolitics because they are cheap, […]

OPEC Faces Critical Decision As Oil Drops Again

October 18, 2019/OilPrice.com Oil prices were down on Friday morning as worrying fundamentals and economic uncertainty boosted bearish sentiment further. OPEC+ is coming under an increasing amount of pressure to cut production as its next meeting nears. Friday, October 18, 2019 Oil prices were down on Friday morning as the […]