Gift cards have always been an unhappy medium: more thoughtful than cash, less thoughtful than an actual gift. But with recent changes to the laws governing these products, restricting fees and expiration dates, gift cards are about to become less

The Nobel Committee said it awarded President Obama the Peace Prize in part for his ability to instill people with hope for the future. With the global economy looking particularly dismal, observers are wondering how much Monday's announcement of the

Market Wrap-UpStocks rallied late in the day and hit a high point for the year as traders' hopes for recovery climbed sharply. Most exchange-traded funds were carried along in the rally and finished up for the week. The Dow Jones

The success of the KenGen infrastructure bond has raised concerns that similar issues will suck liquidity from the equities segment of the Nairobi Stock Exchange as more firms opt for a similar strategy to raise capital.

In the absence of a national identification system, the Uganda Securities Exchange says it will use local and foreign investors' fingerprints taken at the time of opening an account at the Securities Central Depository agents.

The local textile industry is under siege, the players have said.

Investor confidence in the Nigerian's capital market spurred early rebound of market activities yesterday precipitating marked recovery from the recessive trading witness on Wednesday which forced market capitalization down by N14.79billion.

Transactions on the Nigerian Stock Exchange remained up beat on yesterday, with a value appreciation of N42 billion.

Trade and Commerce Minister, Monique Nsanzabaganwa, yesterday introduced to parliament a bill on regulating operations of Capital Markets and collective investment schemes in the country.

Actis, a private equity investor in emerging markets has announced the investment of about US$750m in it's infrastructure 2nd fund.

The Nigerian Stock Exchange said yesterday it would review on Monday a technical suspension placed on shares in Bank PHB and Spring Bank after a central bank bailout, Reuters reported yesterday.

Beco Petroleum products yesterday joined the league of quoted companies with the listing of its N9.3 billion ordinary shares on the Nigerian Stock Exchange daily official list.

Activities in the stock market reversed again yesterday after the marginal recovery on the heels of the opening gains recorded on Monday.

THERE was a remarkable improvement in turnover on the bourse Tuesday.

Uganda Securities Exchange (USE) has embarked on educating the public about the securities central depository that will end paper certificates.

The upward swing in the share value of majority of the listed equities on the Nigeria Stock Exchange (NSE), continued, Tuesday, as the market value appreciated by N10.5 billion.

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Absa Capital says it seeks to take advantage of the growing debt market in Botswana and other countries in the southern African can region as the means with which to grow its revenues by over 50 percent in the next

Activity on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, yesterday remained upscale with marginal increase of 0.2 per cent recorded by major indicators.

Low prices of stocks quoted on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) yesterday triggered massive rise in turnover of traded equities which impacted positively in all market indices.