bies, gifts, apparel and licensing. Prod- uct areas within the Toy Fair are Baby and Infant, as well as Stationery and Back to School. Launched in 2002,.

 

Analysts in two leading investment banking firms, Meristem Securities Limited and Afrinvest West Africa Plc are bullish on the future of the Diamond Bank Plc despite.

 

Investors’ appetite for government bonds heightened, last week, as they staked N178 billion in the market for Federal Government of Nigeria’s FGN bonds.

 

The nation s benchmark index declined for a second day last Friday, closing the week 0. 45 per cent lower at 22,967. 26. Similarly, the market capitalisation of equities.

 

The Disciplinary Tribunal of the Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers CIS has dismissed charges brought against a stockbroker, Mrs. Ify Rita Ejezie, for unauthorised sale of client’s shares.

 

Urge CBN to exercise caution in policies STAKEHOLDERS in the Nigerian capital market have bemoaned the persistent share price depreciation on the stock market,.

 

NIGERIAN Breweries NB Plc has posted a turnover of N164. 21billion in its 2009 operations, against N145. 46billion in 2008. The company s profit after tax also.

 

Six banks are set to roll out Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System Plc NIBSS ‘s Instant payment service, an online real time inter-bank funds transfer.

 

Reprieve for three rescued banks heightens others fears With less than two months to the deadline given by the Central Bank of Nigeria.

 

Bottom of Form ACCESS Investment and Securities Limited, yesterday, opened its offer of 10,000,000 units each of Access Balanced Fund and Access.

 

The profile of the capital market in Nigeria receives a significant boost as Stanbic IBTC Bank PLC and its stockbroking subsidiary Stanbic IBTC Stockbrokers Limited.

 

Bottom of Form TO successfully attract and retain foreign investors in Nigeria’s capital market, there is the need to enhance factors responsible for production.

 

ELECTRONIC trading, long established on the leading Western Stock Exchanges, is now the norm across much of the developing world. Although the leading African.

 

Low income hinders insurance policy Poor remuneration and challenges discourage most Nigerians from buying insurance, the President, Chartered Insurance.

 

As the National Assembly fine-tunes the bill to establish the Asset Management Corporation AMC , Arunma Oteh, of Securities and Exchange Commission SEC told the Senate on Thursday.

 

http://www. com/NG/index. php option com_mailto tmpl component link o E-mail The crucial role that Nigeria’s economy plays in Africa and the global.

 

The market capitalisation of Ecobank Nigeria Plc was boosted last week following the addition of 6. 662 billion shares to its outstanding shares. Specifically, the market capitalisation.

 

The Central Bank of Nigeria and financial experts agree that the planned commencement of operations of the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria to coincide with.

 

The Nigerian Stock Exchange has adjusted the prices of four equities for dividend payment. The NSE said on its website on Friday that the decision to adjust the prices.

 

THE bears consolidated their hold on the market yesterday, as more highly capitalised companies joined the league of losers, causing market capitalisation.

 

FOLLOWING share price gains recorded by major highly capitalised companies, transactions on the stock market continued on an upward note yesterday,.

 

It is exactly 22 days to the June 30, 2010 deadline set for Wema Bank and Unity Bank, two institutions previously with heavy public sector shareholding,.

 

Governor Chibuike Amechi, of Rivers said on Wednesday that the Securities and Exchange Commission must work hard to convince Nigerians to invest.

 

The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Lamido Sanusi, has said that more former bank chief executive officers facing trial.

 

GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Nigeria Plc has announced 19 increase in turnover from N12. 54billion to N14. 95billion in its 2009 financial year. Profit before tax and after tax were.

 

As the era of universal banking comes to an end, 10 out of the 14 bank-owned insurance companies may be sold outright, while four others may operate as group holdings. The latest.

 

Wema Bank Plc has recorded significant improvement in its financial performance, as its shareholders’ fund rose to N14. 837 billion from a negative position of N44. 62 billion in 2009.

 

LAGOS — INDICATIONS have emerged that the Central Bank, CBN, has given the shareholders of the nine troubled banks to recapitalise the banks. Meanwhile,.

 

This certainly is not the best time for banks and other quoted companies on the floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange NSE. Share prices have plummeted.

 

Bottom of Form TWO companies under the food/beverages and tobacco sub-sector, Nestle Nigeria Plc and Cadbury Plc, traded higher at the end of yesterday’s transactions on the trading.

 

Investors in the Nigerian capital market have for long been at the receiving end when it comes to services being rendered in the course of purchase of either.

 

The Federal Government has been urged to extend the proposed Access Management Company AMC for banks toxic asset to stockbroking firms, for a holistic resolution.

 

http://www. com/NG/index. php option com_mailto tmpl component link o E-mail Major petroleum marketing company, Conoil Plc, has linked the impressive.

 

Nationalised banks, Shareholders threaten to sue CBN, NDIC Shareholders of the defunct Afribank Plc, Bank PHB Plc and Spring Bank Plc are threatening legal battle.

 

Banks are reviewing their prime lending rates downward to reflect the crash in deposit rates from 11 per cent to three per cent Vanguard.

 

The re-emergence of conservative banking and prudence, among others, are responsible for the gradual return to profitability of the ailing banks and good outing of others in the first.

 

The Nigerian Stock Exchange’s All-Share Index, on Monday, dropped to a 21-month low, as investors continued to dump significant portion of their shares.

 

Okays return of seized properties, passports LAGOS— Indications emerged, weekend, that the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has been secretly.

 

http://www. compassnews. net/Ng/index. php option com_mailto tmpl component link o E-mail Significant investors interest in the shares of the banking sub-sector.

 

Indications have emerged that some highly placed individuals, who have enormous debts with the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria,.

 

THE Federal Government has debunked reports that the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria will commence operations in January 2011. A senior government.

 

http://www. com/NG/index. php option com_mailto tmpl component link o E-mail A state-funded ‘bad bank’ being formed to buy non-performing loans held.

 

Bottom of Form REGULATORY authorities of the Nigerian Capital Market has been urged to shun the planned of stock broking firms in Nigeria as it is capable.

 

The end, after all, appears to have come for the activities of Capital Market Operators CMO who in the past, have wittingly or unwittingly been involved.

 

An expert in the Nigerian capital market, Mr. Babtunde Adeyemi, has called on the authorities in the financial market, to, henceforth, stop banks and insurance firms from.

 

FOR the year 2010, the Securities and Exchange Commission SEC registered 27 capital market operators out of 131 applications received within the period. Also, 37 firms were.

 

The management of Austin Laz and Company Limited has announced plans to list the company’s shares by introduction on the trading floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange. According.

 

Zenith Bank Plc has announced that it will sell its non-banking subsidiaries. The bank said in a conference call with Bloomberg on Thursday, that.

 

‘Why ministries, parastatals can’t access capital budgets’  FROM November 15, 2010, universal banking in the country will cease. In its place.