OPINION/EDITORIAL

Assessing the Risk of the Next Housing Bust

April 4, 2019/IMFBlog By Claudio Raddatz and Nico Valckx There’s good news for people living in Las Vegas, Miami and Phoenix: the risk of a housing bust like the one they endured during the global financial crisis is fairly small. For folks in Toronto and Vancouver, however, the picture hasn’t […]

Oil Hits 2019 High On Shale Slowdown

April 2, 2019/OilPrice.com –    The EIA projects that U.S. tight oil production, having taken over from conventional crude as the major source of output for the country, will hit 10 million barrels of daily oil production by 2030. –    In 2018, tight oil production reached 6.5 mb/d. –    Three shale […]

Investing in Africa: An Outlook on Nigeria and Ethiopia

April 2, 2019 Itumeleng Mukhovha, an associate in the Corporate/M&A practice at Baker McKenzie in  Johannesburg One can easily assume that international investors are deterred from investing in Africa given the growing need to weather a global financial crisis, which has been distorted by Brexit, rising geopolitical tensions, tightened global […]