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President Zuma Skips Monday’s innovaBRICS & Beyond Conference – link South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma cancelled his scheduled Monday appearance in London at the innovaBRICS conference, hosted by Deloitte. South African publication City Press reported that President Zuma cancelled his appearance due to not being able to secure a meeting with Prime Minister David Cameron,…
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No. 26: As a Third Grader, I Broke Up a Fight Between Two Fifth Graders
ABN Digital, AMCON, Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria, Ben Bernanke, Business Insider, Central Bank, East Africa, EM, emerging market, Emerging markets, Federal Reserve System, Financial Market, Foreign-exchange reserves, Jendayi Frazier, Jim O’Neill, Lex Luthor, Mark Mobius, Nigeria, North-South, Richard Koo, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, South-South, Tony ElumeluAnd thankfully, Mark Mobius aka Lex Luthor is breaking up the fight going on between emerging and developed markets on US Federal Reserve Bank guidance rumors. The dance has gone something like this: Emerging Markets: Sigh, the Fed is being pretty tight with it’s currency. Come on coach, let emerging markets spin! Ben Bernanke: Policy…
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United Nations climate talks end today in South Africa and the United States and China are playing chicken on who will take the lead in stewarding the environment well while also driving economic development. Quietly, Kenya has signed major deals just this year that will see the opening of at least three plants that will…
Kwame Som-Pimpong 