Nigeria

Authored by Soren Kern via The Gatestone Institute,

Authored by Irina Slav via OilPrice.com,

The richest man in Africa says crude oil prices would do Nigeria a favor if they stay lower for longer.

Last week at the UN General Assembly, Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote, whose main business is in cement but also holds interests in agricultural commodities and petrochemicals, said that agriculture - not crude oil - is the way forward for Nigeria, and that Africa “will become the food basket of the world.”

Authored by Soeren Kern via The Gatestone Institute,

The fractures within OPEC's precarioua production cut agreement are becoming increasingly more visible.

Goldman has done it again: less than two weeks after the bank said "oil prices have likely hit bottom of the price range, and look attractive" when it slashed its WTI price target from $55 to $47.50 (and every other Wall Street bank promptly followed), in a note released overnight by its analysts including Damien Courvalin and Jeffrey Currie, the central banker incubator has effectively thrown in the towel, and writes that while its 3 month base case price target remains$47.5, it warns that absent a "shock and awe" production cuts from OPEC, oil could tumble below $40/barrel