Investor confidence returns to Nigerian markets

Nigeria’s equities market has shed almost 2 per cent in the last trading session of the third quarter. As we head into the last quarter of the year, for an outlook of trading activities on the local bourse, Olamide Adeboboye, Research Analyst at ARM Securities joins CNBC Africa for more.

Nigeria's equities market shed 2.4 per cent in the first trading week of the fourth quarter, as the losing streak looks to continue this week. Gbolahan Aina, Head of Investment at Cordros Asset Management joins CNBC Africa for more.

Okapi Partners President and CEO Bruce Goldfarb; Bloomberg Law Transactional Team Leader Diane Holt; and Trevor Norwitz, Partner, Corporate Development, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz sit down with Edelman General Manager Josh Hochberg at the Future of Investing in Washington DC on October 10, 2019.

As major companies begin to disclose their 9-month earnings, Andrew Tsaku a Trader at Kapital Care Trust joins CNBC Africa for more.

Nigeria’s FX reserves are down by 6 per cent this year to 40.5 billion dollars. Victor Aluyi, Head of Portfolio Management at Comercio Partners joins CNBC Africa to preview the fixed income and FX markets this week.

Cement companies in Nigeria have begun reporting their 9-month earnings. Janet Ogunkoya, Research Analyst at ARM Securities joins CNBC Africa to unpack these financial statements and discuss some stories from Nigeria’s cement industry.

Nigeria’s Debt Management Office will conduct its November bond auction today – Forex Trader at Access Bank, Ajoke Adepoju joins CNBC Africa to discuss what to expect.

The Nigerian Senate has adjourned plenary till April 7 as part of the precautionary measures to prevent further spread of COVID-19 in the Country.

Traders say Nigeria’s April bond auction may not hold on the back of Nigeria's 14-day lockdown but adds that the Debt Management Office would keep paying this month’s coupons. Bankole Odusanya, Head of Fixed Income trading at UBA joins CNBC Africa for this discussion.

Financial Derivatives say they expect a 0.69 per cent rise in Nigeria’s headline inflation to 12.95 per cent year-on-year this April. Damilola Akinbami, Head of Research at Financial Derivatives joins CNBC Africa to breakdown their inflation expectations.

New car registrations in the European Union fell by 76 percent in April, the largest fall on record, as lockdown measures hit production and sales. Figures from the European Automobile Manufacturers Association show the slump was particularly pronounced in Spain and Italy, where registrations fell by over 97 percent. Also today, the UK saw a jump in unemployment claims in April, despite 7.5 million workers being covered by the British government's pandemic income support scheme.

President Nicolas Maduro says he expects mass vaccination of Venezuelans against Covid-19 with the Russian-developed Sputnik V vaccine to begin in April 2021.