IFS Advocates Comprehensive Hedging Plan For Ghana’s Oil
The Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) has urged government to consider a comprehensive hedging programme that would cover imports and ...
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Bank of Nigeria Predicts Massive Growth In 3rd Quarter
Nigeria’s troubled economy will record tremendous improvement by the third quarter of the year, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), ...
Political Risk Weighs On European Stocks
European stocks slid on Tuesday as political risk once again returned to the fore with Italy nearing a deal for ...
Oil Producers To Extend Output Curbs At OPEC Meeting
Oil producers inside and outside the OPEC cartel have little choice but to extend their deal from late 2016 curbing ...
Oil Price Tumbles To Five-Month Low
The oil price has fallen to a five-month low as investor concerns resurface about a worldwide glut. Brent crude dropped ...
Economy Sinks To 22-Year Low; Grows By Only 3.5% In 2016
The country’s economy last year grew by 3.5 percent, the lowest rate in the past 22 years and the fifth ...
IMANI’s Quick Picks From 2017 Budget
The general feeling is that the Minister passed his first test given the replication of major campaign promises in the ...
IMANI’s Quick Picks From Ghana’s Post 2016 Election Budget
Yesterday, Ghana’s Finance Minister, Mr. Ken Ofori- Atta presented his maiden budget to Parliament. The minister christened his budget ‘’ ...
U.S. Shale Oil Braces For the Unfamiliar In 2017
U. S. shale producers are facing their first production cost increase in five years in 2017 as industry activity picks ...
Free Education Policy Under the Economic Microscope
For the past decade, one topical issue that has been exhaustively debated especially during the electioneering campaigns was “free SHS ...
Fresh US Drilling Capping Oil Price
Renewed drilling by US oil producers is keeping a ceiling on a global crude price recovery, cutting into the impact ...
$1bn China Development Bank Loan Can’t Be Paid?
The Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC) has expressed doubts about the ability of the Ghana National Gas Company (GNGC) ...
IFS Renews Pressure To Hedge Ghana’s Oil
The Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS), has made fresh calls for Ghana to hedge its oil to protect the country ...
IFS Renews Pressure To Hedge Ghana’s Oil
The Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS), has made fresh calls for Ghana to hedge its oil to protect the country ...
Stocks Steady, Oil In Flux, Sterling Suffers ‘hard’ Brexit Fears
Asian stock markets rose on Tuesday while crude oil prices languished near three-week lows, with investors uncertain whether output cuts ...
A Clash Between True Federalism, Clumsy Leadership
MANY Nigerians sorrowfully misconstrue the supposed looting spree that characterised the successive Nigerian governments as the epicentre of the economic ...
Fuel Prices Hit 18-Month High, After Opec Production Cuts
The price of petrol and diesel in the UK has risen to its highest since July 2015, following a three-pence-a-litre ...
OPEC, Non-OPEC Agree First Global Oil Pact Since 2001
OPEC and non-OPEC producers on Saturday reached their first deal since 2001 to curtail oil output jointly and ease a ...
US Markets Regain Momentum After Wild Volatility
U. S. financial markets witnessed wild swings after U.S. Republican Donald Trump won the country’s presidential election, but then stabilized ...
I Felt Like Absconding When I Took Over From Jonathan —Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari said, yesterday, that he almost left the country when he discovered that the nation’s treasury was empty ...