Culled—IMF Managing Director’s Speech to the State Council Lisbon, Portugal March 1, 2019 As prepared for delivery Introduction Dear President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, President of the Assembly of the Republic, Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues, Prime Minister Antonio Costa, and distinguished members of the Council. Thank you very much for the […]
OPINION/EDITORIAL
The End of a Record-Breaking Oil Rally?
March 1, 2019/OilPrice.com Oil prices have had the strongest start to the year in recorded history, but economic data looks set to put an end to that rally. Friday, March 1, 2019 Oil was down a few days ago, but is set to close out the week with another gain, […]
A Predictive Model for Inflation in Nigeria
Culled—Proshare February 28, 2019/CBN The study estimates a dynamic model using quarterly data spanning 1995 to 2016. Four dynamic models: level lagged variables, differenced lagged variables, log-transformed lagged variables and differenced log-transformed lagged variables were considered. The best predictive model was selected based on the Schwarz Information Criterion (SIC) value. […]

