Tag: Monetary Policy

Emerging market pain dominates G20 economy talks

Emerging and developed G20 powers struggled to find common ground on Thursday over the turmoil unleashed by the prospect of the United States reducing a flood of dollars to the world economy. The Group of 20, which united in response to global crisis in 2009, now faces a U.S. economy […]

CBN’s monetary tightening policy lowers inflation to 8.6%

The monetary tightening policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria is beginning to yield results as the country’s inflation experiences a sharp decline. Figures released by the National Bureau of Statistics on Wednesday in Abuja showed that the country’s inflation dropped to 8.6 per cent in March from 9.5 per […]

IMF Advocates Macroprudential Policy to Aid Financial Stability

By Peter OBIORA InvestAdvocate Lagos (INVESTADVOCATE)-The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has advocated Macroprudential Policy to aid financial stability. The IMF came up with this theory in a Paper titled “The Interaction of Monetary And Macroprudential Policies” and made available to www.investadvocateng.com. According to the Paper, as Macroprudential Policy frameworks are […]