March 28, 2022/Coronation Research The demand for mobile data usage as well as increased network coverage has increased the potential of Nigeria’s e-commerce market. Based on data from the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), as at end-2021, mobile network coverage was estimated at 102% based on a population size of 190 […]
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How Soaring Shipping Costs Raise Prices Around the World
(Photo: delectus/iStock by Getty Images) CHART OF THE WEEK March 28, 2022/IMFBlog By Yan Carrière-Swallow , Pragyan Deb, Davide Furceri , Daniel Jiménez and Jonathan D. Ostry The sea carries more than 80 percent of the world’s traded goods, most of which sail inside 40-foot-long steel containers stacked by the […]
Mission Impossible: Predicting The Oil Market
March 25, 2022/OilPrice.com It’s been another very busy week for oil and gas markets as Putin threatened European gas imports, a storm knocked a major oil pipeline offline, and a Saudi oil terminal came under missile attack. Brent is back above $120 per barrel as bullish sentiment remains dominant, but […]
