Revenues from Companies Income Tax, Value Added Tax, import duty, royalties; Petroleum Profit Tax all decreased drastically which are parts of the main sources of statutory revenue. These led the Federation Account Allocation to the three tiers of government as revenue to reduce by N66.23bn to N635.82bn in November 2019. Punch
European Central bank (ECB) and Sweden’s central bank (Riksbank) Benchmark rates are part of the main drivers of Euro zone bond yields. Riksbank raised its benchmark repo rate by a quarter point to zero (0) while ECB cut its deposit rate by 10 basis points to -0.5% in September. These led to Germany’s (the Eurozone’s…
Euro zone yields steady after falling on renewed Brexit jitters US –CHINA trade talks and Brexit are part of the main drivers Euro zone bond yields. Britain has set a hard deadline of December 2020 to reach a new trade deal with the European Union while the Euro zone economy is anticipating an agreement on…
Energy trade is one of the main drivers of the European Union (EU) trade balance. The EU exports increased by 4.1% and imports decreased by 3.2% leading to EU trade surplus rising to 28.0 billion Euros ($30.9 billion) in October 2019 from 13.2 billion in October 2018. The EU Energy imports reduced by 7.7% between…
US – CHINA trade talks & BREXIT are one of the main drivers of foreign exchange (FOREX) market. The volume of FOREX traded daily declined by 4.2% in November 2019 to $1.61 trillion from $1.68 trillion as at November 2019 while declining by 10% when compared with October 2019. FOREX volumes have been rising in…
US Consumer spending is one of the main drivers of US economy. US Retail sales increased by 0.2% in November 2019, Compared to November 2018, retail sales increased 3.3%. Consumer spending, which accounts for more than two-thirds of U.S. economy, grew at a 2.9% annualized rate in the 3rd quarter of 2019, while unemployment rate…
US Benchmark overnight lending rate is one of the main drivers of Liquidity in the US short term funding market. Interest rates in the overnight repurchase agreement (repo) market increased to 10%, in September 2019 which was over four times the benchmark overnight lending rate. US has made efforts to boost liquidity in cash lending…
US Benchmark Monetary policy rate is one of the main drivers of the US economy. US Federal Reserve policy committee is expected to leave its benchmark rate unchanged at a level between 1.5% and 1.75% at the end of today’s two-day policy meeting. Policymakers agree that a very low US unemployment rate of 3.5% is…
Benchmark 10 year yields is one of the main drivers of Japan bond futures. The 10-year yield has risen about 8 basis points so far which turned 0 from being negative since March 2019 while Japanese bond futures have fallen to the lowest since one year and are down over 2% from highest in late…
Us-China trade war is one of the main drivers of the China’s Economy Slow down which is leading to increasing default by Chinese companies in 2020. Moody’s credit rating agency expects 40-50 new defaults in 2020, compared with 35 in 2019 and total value of defaults in 2020 to be below 200 billion yuan ($28…
