NEW YORK – U.S. stocks closed mostly lower after a shortened holiday session, although the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 index notched their eight-straight...
LONDON – European stocks ended flat across the board Friday as the positive impact faded after an upgrade of Spain’s credit outlook and slightly positive European...
WASHINGTON – Apple Inc. looks like it wants a piece of the stock market’s record-setting rally. Shares of the iPhone and iPad maker moved back above...
ABUJA – Mr Wale Abe, the Executive Secretary of Financial Markets Dealers Association, says the N5.74 trillion facility given banks by the CBN will help to...
ABUJA – The Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, at the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN) 47th annual bankers’...
NEW YORK – U.S. stock index futures edged higher on Friday, with investors reluctant to make big bets in an abbreviated session, though major indexes remained...
TOKYO – Profit-taking pulled the benchmark Japanese index down from a six-year high, while Hong Kong’s index notched its highest close this year. The Nikkei 225...
LONDON – The number of people without jobs across the 17 countries that share the euro fell in October by the largest amount since April 2011,...
ABUJA – About $5.4bn (N864bn) has so far been invested in the Nigerian bond market by foreign investors, the Director General, Securities and Exchange Commission, Ms...
TOKYO – On October 14, the United Nations Trust Fund for Human Security, which was established by the initiative of the Government of Japan, decided to...