Posts Tagged ‘News

The Vanguard Newspapers reports today that the NSE has announced that they will be launching 5 new trading indices. They are:

  1. NSE 30 index
  2. NSE Banking 10 Index
  3. NSE Insurance 10 Index
  4. NSE Food/Beverage 10 Index
  5. NSE OIL/Gas 5 Index

Here are some of the major news stories from the past week:

Major business news stories

Major News For the Week

In: News

29 Nov 2008

Here are the major business news this week:

According to Business Day, the 3 companies, Greenwich Trust Limited, Vetiva Capital Management Limited and Chapel Hill Denham Group have been selected by the SEC to stabilize the markets. Here is the report by Business Day: http://www.proshareng.com/myproshare/portal_news.php?id=5339 Capital market makers emerge The dwindling fortunes of the nation’s capital market are expected to experience improvement as [...]

Courtesy of Investor Delight, here is the weekly report for the week ended Friday, November 14th 2008:

Some economic news…

In: News

11 Nov 2008

Some economic news…

Afrinvest has prepared a well written report on the reinstated 5% circuit breaker. Here is an excerpt: Going Forward: What are the Opportunities?Overall, Afrinvest Research expects  that a return to +5%/-5% will lead to a significant sell-off in Nigerian equities, and a sharp decline in market valuations. However, we expect that the return to previous [...]

As expected,the dip in share prices is blamed for Union Bank’s suspension of its offer:

The Federal Government has announced that they will be reducing the oil benchmark for the 2009 budget from the current projected price of $62/barrel. It is expected to be around $45 to $59. Here is the report by Business Day:

Some news stories…

In: News

10 Oct 2008

Here are some of the major news stories for this week in the NSE:

Major news headlines in NIgerian business over the past week:


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