Four major banks will pay fines totaling over £100 million ($127 million) to settle a long-running antitrust case over collusion by their traders, who shared sensitive information in chatrooms about buying and selling gilts after the 2008 financial crisis. Traders […]
XRP saw a 7.5% price increase on Feb. 20, 2025, hitting $2.71, following key developments regarding its potential for institutional investment. This rally comes after the SEC acknowledged multiple ETF filings for XRP, including submissions by major asset managers WisdomTree […]
International investors are showing increasing interest in Nigeria’s lithium reserves, according to Segun Tomori, special assistant on media to Dele Alake, the minister of solid minerals development. During an XSpace session hosted by TheCable on Monday, Tomori described lithium as the most […]
United States President Donald Trump has called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a “dictator.” In a post on his Truth Social platform on Wednesday, Trump criticised Zelensky for his failure to hold elections, noting that the Ukrainian leader’s five-year term expired […]
Nigeria’s central bank will probably hold interest rates steady later on Thursday, pausing an aggressive tightening cycle after inflation slowed sharply following a revision to how the data is calculated. Seven of nine economists polled by Bloomberg forecast that policymakers […]
The yen hit its strongest level against the dollar since December, beating all major currencies’ performance on Thursday amid growing speculation the Bank of Japan will hike rates sooner rather than later. Japan’s currency climbed as much as 0.8% to […]
Global equities rose on Friday, with Wall Street and European markets posting strong weekly gains, as upbeat economic data and corporate earnings boosted investor confidence ahead of the U.S. presidential inauguration. The MSCI global stock index climbed 0.81%, while Wall Street’s major indexes extended gains: Dow Jones Industrial […]
China’s central bank governor has offered to deepen cooperation with emerging economies on a series of issues and to help them gain a greater voice in global financial governance during a series of speeches in Saudi Arabia. Pan Gongsheng, governor […]
A billion-dollar expansion of Africa’s most important US-backed critical minerals project is now caught in limbo, due to a sweeping foreign-aid freeze under the Trump administration, creating an opportunity for China to step in. The Lobito Corridor railway project, a […]
(NASDAQ: MRNA) surged on Tuesday, gaining 5.75% to $36.02 with a session volume of 8.0 million, according to Benzinga Pro. The rally follows the company’s announcement of continued support from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to […]
