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USA
Mercado financeiro eleva projeção da inflação para 6,56%
A previsão do mercado financeiro para o Índice Nacional de Preços ao Consumidor Amplo (IPCA – a inflação oficial do país) deste ano subiu de 6,31% para 6,56%. A estimativa está no Boletim Focus de hoje (26), pesquisa divulgada semanalmente pelo Banco Central (BC), com a projeção para os principais ...
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Nigeria
IGP Decorates 167 Newly Promoted Police Officers
The inspector-general of police, IGP Alkali Baba Usman, on Monday, kick- started the decoration of about 167 newly promoted police officers. Speaking in Abuja while decorating the assistant inspectors-general of police, the IGP said, “this promotion exercise is a due recognition of the history of professional excellence of all the ...
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Kenya Regno Unito
Buhari To Attend Global Education Summit, Undergo Medical Checkup In London
President Muhammadu Buhari will this Monday, July 26, 2021, travel to the United Kingdom to participate in the Global Education Summit on Financing Global Partnership for Education (GPE) 2021-2025. The Summit, which will be co-hosted by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson, and the President of Kenya, ...
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Nigeria
El-Rufai: Governor of The Year, Man of The Moment (Column)
First, Business Day gave Malam Nasir El-Rufai an award of Governor of the Year. In 2019, The Sun Newspaper also crowned him its Governor of the Year. Penultimate Saturday, the same award was given to the Executive Governor of Kaduna state, this time by the Vanguard newspaper. Undoubtedly, El-Rufai deserves ...
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Nigeria
Okonjo-Iweala Negotiates Better Trade Deal For Nigeria
The director general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has disclosed the efforts she is making to push for better trade negotiations for Nigeria and other African countries at the world body in order to attract investment and add value to the goods produced in the country. Okonjo-Iweala ...
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Nigeria
IFC Invests $25m To Boost Digital Access In Nigeria, Others
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has made a $25 million equity investment in convergence partners’ digital infrastructure fund. This, it said, was to strengthen broadband infrastructure and improve online access to digital services for individuals and businesses in more than 12 countries in sub-Saharan Africa including Nigeria. The fund is ...
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USA
Aon’s $30bn acquisition of Willis Towers Watson collapses
Insurance brokers call off deal after reaching ‘impasse’ with US government over legal action to block it
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Cina
China’s education sector crackdown hits foreign investors
Tutoring businesses feared ‘virtually uninvestable’ under plans to curb private capital
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Brasile
Brazil’s fintech Creditas buys used car sales startup Volanty
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Creditas announced this Monday, 26, to acquire used car buying and selling platform Volanty. With this transaction, the company strengthens the positioning of its newest brand focused on the automotive segment: Creditas Auto, which will be officially launched in May 2021. The information was released ...
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Brasile
Brazil: Agrogalaxy falls more than 20% on B3 debut day; Livetech slips slightly
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Shares of Agrogalaxy, a retail platform engaged in the marketing of inputs for the agricultural sector, fell 20.87% at 11 AM to trade at R$10.88 on debut day on the B3. The price per share for the company's IPO was at the lower end of ...