OPINION/EDITORIAL

Mobile Subscriptions Increase Marginally Month-on-Month in January 2025

February 25, 2025/CSL Research Data from the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) shows a significant year-on-year (y/y) decline in active mobile subscriptions for January 2025. The total number of active subscriptions fell by 49.08 million (22.47%), dropping from 218.40 million in January 2024 to 169.32 million in January 2025. However, on […]

Oil Prices Slide After Streak of Gains

February 21, 2025/Oilprice.com Michael Kern Editor, Oilprice.com Oil is set to close out the week with a gain, marking the first upside for crude since mid-January. Friday, February 21, 2025 The Tuesday drone attack on the CPC pipeline, Kazakhstan’s key export conduit, has set a bullish tone for this week […]

Reading between the Lines? Textual Analysis of Central Bank Communications

February 21, 2025/US Federal Reserve By Vice Chair Philip N. Jefferson Thank you, President Daly, for organizing this conference and for the opportunity to talk to this group.1 I have paid close attention to the papers presented at this annual conference in the past, and I look forward to today’s […]