
The Nigerian government has begun a system to integrate the credit scores of Nigerians to their National Identification Numbers (NIN) to track credit scores.
The Nigerian government has begun a system to integrate the credit scores of Nigerians to their National Identification Numbers (NIN) to track credit scores.
The naira recorded its fastest recovery in three weeks, gaining over N110 against the dollar, the first in the last three weeks since it began depreciating.
On a rainy afternoon in Shenzhen, damp passengers jostle their way onto the megacity's buses, the quiet foot soldiers of an electric revolution for coal-guzzling China's public transport network. Shenzhen ditched diesel buses and went fully electric in 2017 -- a world first -- with its taxi fleet not far behind.
Asian stocks were mixed Tuesday, with traders tracking developments in the Middle East crisis as Israel presses on with its ground incursion of Gaza, while hopes the conflict will not spill over regionally kept oil prices subdued. With worries about supplies from the crude-rich Middle East subsiding for now, both main oil contracts edged up slightly Tuesday.
South Korea's Samsung Electronics said Tuesday that its operating profits for the July to September period were down 77.57 percent from the year before, even as new smartphone releases boosted revenue. The company said net profit dropped 37.7 percent year-on-year to 5.8 trillion won -- though it represents a rebound from the second quarter's 1.7 trillion won.
Panama's electoral tribunal on Monday dismissed the idea of organizing a referendum in December on a mining contract that has ignited countrywide protests. "At this time, the conditions are not in place to organize a... popular consultation," the court's president Alfredo Junca told reporters Monday, in reference to the very unrest the referendum was meant to quell.
The US auto workers union reached a tentative agreement with General Motors on a new labor contract Monday, a source close to negotiations told AFP, paving the way to ending a six-week strike at major car manufacturers. The in-principle pacts still need to be ratified by workers in a vote, in a process that could take two weeks, a source close to negotiations earlier said.
Banking giant HSBC on Monday posted surging profits for the third quarter as lenders pass on interest-rate hikes carried out by central banks. The London-listed lender added Monday that third-quarter revenue jumped 40 percent to $16.2 billion in the third quarter year-on-year.
Elon Musk has said that corrections to posts on X would no longer be eligible for payment as the social network comes under mounting criticism as becoming a conduit for misinformation. Musk warned against using corrections to make X users ineligible for receiving payouts.
German output shrank in the third quarter, official data published Monday showed, adding to a continued gloomy picture for Europe's largest economy despite falling inflation. The indicator fell again to 3.8 percent in October, according to data published by Destatis on Monday, with energy prices posting their first year-on-year fall since January 2021.
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