OPINION/EDITORIAL

Domestic Investors Sneeze, the Local Bourse Catches Cold

March 23, 2022/CSL Research The strong enthusiasm with which the year began appears to have cooled off as the recently released NGX Domestic & Foreign Investment report for February 2022 revealed that the total value traded decreased by 43.2% m/m to N183.6bn (US$441.6m) in February from N323.38bn (US$777.3m) in January […]

Europe Divided Over New Oil And Coal Sanctions

March 22, 2022/OilPrice.com Chart of the Week – Oil and gas producers in the Middle East are back in vogue as the prospect of a major Russian supply disruption puts the oil market on edge.  – Germany has been courting Qatar for energy supplies, Japan has asked the UAE to […]

The Strange Case of Cement

March 22, 2022/Coronation Research Nigeria’s economic fortunes wax and wane and so do those of its construction sector. But over the past four years the cement sector has been unusually buoyant. Why?   FX Last week, the exchange rate at the Investors and Exporters Window (I&E Window) declined by 0.04% […]