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‘Enraged’ Trump launches profane rant at governors’ meeting over Supreme Court ruling: CNN
Nigeria’s ETF correction deepens as STANBICETF30, VETGRIF30 sees 50% decline in a week – Businessday NG
Reform UK: Robert Jenrick promises to ‘defuse benefits bomb’
White House aides nervous about Trump’s ‘fury’ after court decision
MOL Seeks Release of Strategic Crude Reserves Amid Druzhba Pipeline Disruption – Budapest Business Journal
PENGASSAN warns Tinubu’s order on NNPC revenues could lead to job losses – Businessday NG
Inflation eases to three per cent boosting interest rate cut hopes
Trump’s policy already cost 100,000 manufacturing jobs — and experts say worse to come
BDCs’ integration boosts FX market liquidity, opens pathway for stable naira – Businessday NG
Experts baffled by Trump’s economy: ‘Unlike anything I’ve seen’
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‘Enraged’ Trump launches profane rant at governors’ meeting over Supreme Court ruling: CNN Nigeria’s ETF correction deepens as STANBICETF30, VETGRIF30 sees 50% decline in a week – Businessday NG Reform UK: Robert Jenrick promises to ‘defuse benefits bomb’ White House aides nervous about Trump’s ‘fury’ after court decision MOL Seeks Release of Strategic Crude Reserves Amid Druzhba Pipeline Disruption – Budapest Business Journal PENGASSAN warns Tinubu’s order on NNPC revenues could lead to job losses – Businessday NG Inflation eases to three per cent boosting interest rate cut hopes Trump’s policy already cost 100,000 manufacturing jobs — and experts say worse to come BDCs’ integration boosts FX market liquidity, opens pathway for stable naira – Businessday NG Experts baffled by Trump’s economy: ‘Unlike anything I’ve seen’
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‘Enraged’ Trump launches profane rant at governors’ meeting over Supreme Court ruling: CNN

‘Enraged’ Trump launches profane rant at governors’ meeting over Supreme Court ruling: CNN

Home ‘Enraged’ Trump launches profane rant at governors’ meeting over Supreme Court ruling: CNN U.S. President Donald Trump holds a working breakfast with governors at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 20, 2026. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque U.S. President Donald Trump holds a working breakfast with governors at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S.

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Nigeria’s ETF correction deepens as STANBICETF30, VETGRIF30 sees 50% decline in a week – Businessday NG

Nigeria’s ETF correction deepens as STANBICETF30, VETGRIF30 sees 50% decline in a week – Businessday NG

The speculative fever that gripped the Nigerian ETF market has broken, leaving double-digit losses for retail investors. As of Friday, the Stanbic IBTC ETF 30 has seen its price slashed to N3,313.18, a 52 percent wipeout from its N7,003 peak reached just nine days ago. “ Nigerian ETFs are currently responding to the law of

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Reform UK: Robert Jenrick promises to ‘defuse benefits bomb’

Reform UK: Robert Jenrick promises to ‘defuse benefits bomb’

Wednesday 18 February 2026 1:23 pm Reform’s Treasury spokesman, Robert Jenrick. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images) Reform UK will restore the two-child benefits cap if it wins the next election, Robert Jenrick has confirmed in a speech in which he branded the Britain’s benefits system an “economic and moral disaster”. In his first formal remarks

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White House aides nervous about Trump’s ‘fury’ after court decision

White House aides nervous about Trump’s ‘fury’ after court decision

NBC News reports “a visibly irritated President Donald Trump” blasted the Supreme Court on Friday for striking down unilateral tariffs he had imposed under an economic emergency law. Before stalking off, Trump assailed the conservative justices of the court who he had apparently expected to rule in alignment with him — as they already have

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MOL Seeks Release of Strategic Crude Reserves Amid Druzhba Pipeline Disruption – Budapest Business Journal

MOL Seeks Release of Strategic Crude Reserves Amid Druzhba Pipeline Disruption – Budapest Business Journal

MOL group has turned to the Energy Ministry to free up the country’s strategic crude reserves, the Hungarian oil and gas company told news wire MTI on Monday. The measure would allow MOL to maintain secure supply for the region, MOL said, adding that no deliveries of Russian crude through the Druzhba pipeline had arrived

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PENGASSAN warns Tinubu’s order on NNPC revenues could lead to job losses – Businessday NG

PENGASSAN warns Tinubu’s order on NNPC revenues could lead to job losses – Businessday NG

The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) has warned that President Bola Tinubu’s executive order directing oil revenues to be paid directly into the federation account could undermine the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited’s financial structure and put jobs at risk. The order, signed on February 18, removes NNPC Limited’s

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Inflation eases to three per cent boosting interest rate cut hopes

Inflation eases to three per cent boosting interest rate cut hopes

Wednesday 18 February 2026 7:44 am The Bank of England signalled a dovish outlook as inflation expectations eased. Inflation fell to its lowest level in nearly a year last month, new figures show, giving a further boost to hopes that the Bank of England will cut interest rates in March.  The headline rate dipped to

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Trump’s policy already cost 100,000 manufacturing jobs — and experts say worse to come

Trump’s policy already cost 100,000 manufacturing jobs — and experts say worse to come

President Donald Trump’s foreign policies are costing Americans their jobs at home and their security overseas, according to a recent expert analysis. Although at the start of his second term Trump levied the highest tariffs America has seen since the 1930s, they have harmed the economy instead of helping it, reported the liberal-leaning think tank

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BDCs’ integration boosts FX market liquidity, opens pathway for stable naira – Businessday NG

BDCs’ integration boosts FX market liquidity, opens pathway for stable naira – Businessday NG

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) decision to allow licensed Bureau De Change (BDC) operators to participate in the Nigerian Foreign Exchange Market (NFEM) has delivered immediate gains for the naira and narrowed the gap between official and parallel market rates. Last week, the apex bank issued a circular to all Authorised Dealer Banks and

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Experts baffled by Trump’s economy: ‘Unlike anything I’ve seen’

Experts baffled by Trump’s economy: ‘Unlike anything I’ve seen’

Experts speaking to Bloomberg were baffled at the current state of Donald Trump’s economy as it enters an unprecedented version of a trend known as the “jobless boom” that could leave the U.S. more vulnerable to a recession. In a piece published on Wednesday, Bloomberg explained that the U.S. economy under Trump appears to be