Updates

Short-term Boost to the Services Account

Culled—Proshare October 13, 2020 By FBNQuest Research The CBN’s latest Quarterly Statistical Bulletin shows that debits on the services account plummeted from US$9.03bn to US$3.39bn in Q2 2020. We might term the decline a short-term benefit of the virus that helped to reduce the deficit on the current account (Good […]

World Economic Outlook, October 2020: A Long and Difficult Ascent

October 13, 2020/IMF The global economy is climbing out from the depths to which it had plummeted during the Great Lockdown in April. But with the COVID-19 pandemic continuing to spread, many countries have slowed reopening and some are reinstating partial lockdowns to protect susceptible populations. While recovery in China […]

How Artificial Intelligence helps Huawei build Green Data Centres

October 13, 2020/Huawei By Huawei Data centres are being overhauled, revamped and modernised to support digital transformation and the power-hungry cloud deployments they contain. Artificial intelligence is a key part of this overhaul as energy conservation – to address both cost and environmental concerns – becomes a top consideration for […]