Inflation & Interest rates are one of the main drivers of US economy. US Short-term borrowing costs target is between 1.50% and 1.75%, while inflation based on the price index for personal consumption expenditures was 1.6% in 2019.These places US economy in a position of continued expansion. Reuters
Equities Market · The Nigerian Equity Bourse recorded an upward swing, as NSE ASI and Market capitalization both increased by 0.36% to 27,871.90 Index Points and N14.516Tr respectively. Year-to-Date ASI is still at a positive of 3.84%. · Number of trade, Volume of trade and Value of trade all increased by 5.82%, 38.03% and…
Annual Budget is one of the main drivers of US economy. The US economy grew by 2.3% in 2019, while President Donald Trump’s is proposing $4.8 trillion budget for 2020. These should lead to US economy growth of 2.2% in 2020. Reuters
Equities Market · The Nigerian Equity Bourse recorded a downward slide, as NSE ASI and Market capitalization both decreased by 1.05% to 27,772.19 Index Points and N14.464Tr respectively. Year-to-Date ASI is still at a positive of 3.47%. · Number of trade, Volume of trade and Value of trade all decreased by 17.82%, 34.14% and…
China fiscal spending is one of the main drivers of Chinese Economy. China fiscal spending increased by 8.1% in 2019 while fiscal revenue increased by 3.8% in 2019. These led to growth in Chinese economy by 6.1% in 2019. Reuters
Global Economy –Rundown: United State labour data that was released for the month of January 2020, revealed a steady gains, which was indicated by the 53.06% growth in payrolls increase from the previous month rate that stood at 147,000 acceleration to the current month 225,000 payroll increase, this simply provides an empirical basis for…
Equities Market · The Nigerian Equity Bourse recorded a downward slide, as NSE ASI and Market capitalization both decreased by 0.26% to 28,067.09 Index Points and N14.618Tr respectively. Year-to-Date ASI is still at a positive of 4.56%. · Number of trade and Volume of trade both decreased by 2.24% and 4.18% to 4243 and 303.933…
Us job growth is one of the main drivers of US economy. US unemployment rate remained low at 3.50% in January 2020 while the US economy grew by 2.3% in 2019. These leads to expectations of US economic growth by 2% in 2020. Reuters
Equities Market • The Nigerian Equity Bourse recorded an upward slide, as NSE ASI and Market capitalization both increased by 0.17% to 28,140.41 Index Points and N14.497Tr respectively. Year-to-Date ASI is still at a positive of 4.84%. • Number of trade, Volume of trade and Value of trade all decreased by 8.23%, 9.43% and 19.93%…
Tariffs are the main driver of US – China trade deal. China’s finance ministry announced that additional tariffs levied on some goods will be cut to 5% from 10% while others lowered to 2.5% from 5%. The objective is to abide by the trade deal and implement it to boost market confidence, push bilateral trade…
