OPINION/EDITORIAL

Oil Markets Ignore The Tanker War

July 23, 2019/OilPrice.com     Chart of the Week   –    Henry Hub natural gas prices are expected to average just $2.37/MMBtu this summer, according to the EIA, which would be the lowest summer average since 1998. –    The EIA said that mild weather at the start of summer led […]

Sluggish Global Growth Calls for Supportive Policies

July 23, 2019/IMFBlog By Gita Gopinath In our July update of the World Economic Outlook we are revising downward our projection for global growth to 3.2 percent in 2019 and 3.5 percent in 2020. While this is a modest revision of 0.1 percentage points for both years relative to our […]

Rates Down, Oil Prices Slack

22/7/2019/Coronation Research As we explained last week, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is taking numerous measures to encourage banks to lend. In the short term these result in high liquidity in the money markets and depress money market rates. It works while there is confidence in the exchange rate, […]