South African owners appear to footdrag on promise to list There is growing disquiet among Nigerian shareholders in MTNNigeria, who now say the company led them to believe that it would list its shares on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) following the highly successful private placement in 2007. In that […]

France and Germany agreed on Thursday to stop arguing in public over whether the European Central Bank should do more to rescue the euro zone from a deepening sovereign debt crisis. President Nicolas Sarkozy and Chancellor Angela Merkel said after talks with Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti that they trusted […]

Asian stock markets were mostly lower Friday after Germany continued to oppose a bigger role for the European Central Bank in managing the continent’s debt crisis and Portugal’s credit rating was lowered to junk. Benchmark crude added to gains above $96 per barrel while the dollar rose against the euro […]