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BRVM Emerges First Stock Market for Islamic Finance in Africa to List Five Sukuks amounting to $1.3 Billion

By InvestAdvocate Lagos (INVESTADVOCATE)-The Regional Stock Exchange (BRVM) on Wednesday said it has admitted in its listing the first five Sukuks issued by Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal and Togo, on the sidelines of the 2nd Forum on Islamic Finance in Africa held in Abidjan “The first listing reflects the commitment of […]

Response to Recession: Tactically Barking At The Wrong Tree

Culled—Proshare October 19, 2016/ Temitope Babalola, Coffee Post Certainly the present macro environment has been a challenging one so far, it has been characterised by twin shocks. On one hand cyclical shock which have relatively kept oil price subdued. While on the other end it finds itself up against socio […]

Inflation Moving In The Right Direction

Culled—Proshare October 19, 2016/FBNQuest Research The latest inflation report from the NBS shows the eighth successive acceleration in the headline rate, to 17.9% y/y in September from 17.6% the previous month. Our own contribution to wire service polls of analysts was a rate of 18.0% y/y. There was an increase […]