South Africa's blue chips slumped 1,65% in morning trade on Tuesday, reversing six straight sessions of gains as weaker commodity prices triggered heavy losses in resource stocks.

Activity on the Nigerian Stock Exchange reversed again at the opening of transactions yesterday, with the performance indicators slipping by 1.2 per cent each.

Trading on equities quoted on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) yesterday opened on a bearish note as 47 equities representing 72.30 percent equities depreciated in price on the first trading day of the week.

The Dalasi is very brilliant this week again and it has registered more gains at trading against major world currencies notably the Pound Sterling, Euro and the US Dollar. More impressive is the fact that it has registered gains against

STABILITY and SUSTAINABILITY: has been and continues to be a defining menace in our struggle as nation states in Africa since Independence from White Colonial Rule (WCR).

Equity Market

Shareholders of public companies in the Nigerian capital market has been blamed for the failure of certain companies to abide by strict corporate governance principle.

Hope seems to have returned for shareholders of Nigerian Wire Industries Plc (NIWIL) as the company has announced a N10.1 million profit in its half year financial statement released to the investing community, last week.

Trade in equities last week saw investors staking a total of N15.8 billion on 2.1 billion shares, swapped in 29,101 deals, in contrast to a total of 2.82 billion shares valued at N19.1 billion exchanged last week in 35,025 deals.

ACTIVITY on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange slowed down on the last day of trading with the mainstream industrial index retreating 2,60 points to close at 170,61 points.

Rwanda Environment Management Authority (REMA) has revealed that few industries meet the regulatory body's directive of having waste treatment systems in place.

Equity Market

The Uganda Shilling has this week continued its latest remarkable rise against the US Dollar.

VASTI Cedeno, a graduate student from the US, travelled to Uganda this year to visit friends and do research for her master's degree. To avoid high bank charges, she brought the money she planned to use in cash. However, to

The 'land rush' across Africa by international investors should be regulated to protect smallholder farmers from deals that could leave them landless and hungry.

Despite Uganda domestic investments overtaking Foreign Direct Investments during the third quarter of 2009, total planned investments between July and September came to $266 million, a 36 per cent drop from $415 million registered in the second quarter, thanks to

Zimbabwe should maximise on renewed investor interest and seize the opportunity to emerge as a highly competitive investment destination.

CENTRAL Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Sanusi Lamido last Friday at a policy dialogue organized by the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) said with all equivocation that the shareholders of the eight banks recently taken over by the apex bank

Euro Global Foods and Distilleries Limited, a subsidiary of Sona Group, has announced its determination to set up a greenfield distillery that will help boost its productive ability and promote the sale of its products across the country.

The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Lamido Sanusi, will on Tuesday, in South Africa, brief the international financial community on recent developments in the Nigerian financial sector.