Tag: Bonds.

How Stocks Beats Bonds and Commodities in 2012

When it’s midnight and there’s no one around to kiss, you take what you can get. Your editor has always employed this strategy on New Year’s Eve. Looking back on 2012, it looks like investors adopted pretty much the same strategy: take whatever you can get to beat currency debasement […]

Inter-bank rates fall on excess liquidity

Inter-bank lending rates eased further last week to an average of 10.75 per cent, from 11 per cent recorded the previous week, as cash from mature bonds and bills hit the market and unattractive yields on treasury bills limited central bank mop-up efforts. Dealers said about N81bn ($512.33m) in mature […]