October 16, 2024/United Capital Research Extracts from Septr-2024 Consumer Price Index (CPI) report released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) revealed that the Nigeria’s headline inflation printed at 32.70% on a year-on-year (y/y) basis, indicating a 54bps climb from 32.15% y/y recorded in Aug-2024. On a month-on-month viewpoint, a […]
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How High Economic Uncertainty May Threaten Global Financial Stability
(Credit: IMF Photo/Tuane Fernandes) October 16, 2024/IMFBlog By Mario Catalán, Andrea Deghi, and Mahvash S. Qureshi Uncertainty is not as easily measured as traditional indicators like growth or inflation, but economists have built some reliable proxies. One of the best-known gauges is the Economic Policy Uncertainty Index, which tallies how many news […]
Artificial Intelligence Can Make Markets More Efficient—and More Volatile
(Credit: IMF Photo/Tuane Fernandes) October 15, 2024/IMFBlog By Nassira Abbas, Charles Cohen, Dirk Jan Grolleman, and Benjamin Mosk More efficient or more volatile? The adoption of the latest iterations of artificial intelligence by financial markets can improve risk management and deepen liquidity; but it could also make markets opaque, harder to monitor, […]
