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The World’s Top Recipients of Foreign Direct Investment

(IMAGE: HURCA/ADOBE STOCK) CHART OF THE WEEK December 16, 2021/IMFBlog By Carlos Sánchez-Muñoz, Silvia Matei, and Kristy Howell A Japanese automobile manufacturer builds an assembly plant in Mexico. An Italian software company opens a sales office in Kenya to reach the Kenyan market with their services. A large Australian mining company acquires a […]

Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization – G.17

December 16, 2021/US Federal Reserve Revision of Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization Notice Below Industrial production rose 0.5 percent in November. The indexes for both manufacturing and mining increased 0.7 percent, while the index for utilities decreased 0.8 percent. At 102.3 percent of its 2017 average, total industrial production in November was 5.3 percent above its […]

SEC Commences Regulatory Fee on Fixed Income Transactions Jan 1

………Renewal of CMOs Registration December 16, 2021/SEC Nigeria The securities and Exchange Commission is to commence regulatory fee on fixed income (Bonds) secondary market transactions with effect from January 1, 2022. This was contained in a Circular dated December 15, 2021 and signed by the Management of the SEC. According to […]