Here’s your Forex & Global Economics daily digest 📊. Stay ahead of FX markets, macro trends, and African economic news.
- 🇳🇬 Lagos moves to seize unpaid taxes directly from banks and third parties – Nairametrics
- 🇳🇬 Nigeria’s booming stocks hit new highs—success with serious caveats – Nairametrics
- 🇳🇬 Africa Finance Brief: Regional banks step in as global lenders retreat
- 🇳🇬 Zenith gets Kenyan nod for full takeover of Paramount Bank, bolsters East Africa reach
- Yen rallies to over 2-month high as markets on alert for intervention – Reuters
- Japan says in close coordination with US on forex as yen intervention risks mount – Reuters
- Gold rises past $5,000 for first time – Financial Times
- FirstFT: Trump faces backlash against immigration crackdown – Financial Times
- Dollar Pressure Mounts as Reasons for Further Weakness Multiply – Bloomberg
- Yen Extends Gains Amid Threat of Intervention: Markets Wrap – Bloomberg
- Can America’s bond market keep defying the vigilantes?
- An audacious new book about a “precocious” country
- Disclosable Version of the ISR – KP- Spending Effectively for Enhanced Development – P175727 – Sequence No : 9 – World Bank
- Disclosable Version of the ISR – Metropolitan Buenos Aires Urban Transformation Project – P159843 – Sequence No : 18 – World Bank
- World Economic Outlook Update, January 2026: Global Economy: Steady amid Divergent Forces – International Monetary Fund
- IMF Office in Indonesia – International Monetary Fund
- Japanese Yen sticks to strong gains as intervention risks persist; USD/JPY hangs near 154.00
- Japan’s Takaichi says to achieve two-year suspension of 8% tax on food at earliest date possible
- FX option expiries for 26 January 10am New York cut
- US futures see nervous start to the week, big tech earnings in focus
- 🇳🇬 Currency outside banks reaches all-time high of N5.4 trillion – Nairametrics
- 🇳🇬 South Africa’s banking giant advances East Africa bet with $856m NCBA deal
- Currency markets on guard for intervention in Japan’s yen – Reuters
- Bangladesh electricity deals add billions to power costs, review finds – Financial Times
- Yen Rises as Warning From Takaichi Raises Intervention Risk – Bloomberg
- Japan’s bond-market tremble reflects a fiscal-monetary clash
- Viet Nam – EAST ASIA AND PACIFIC- P174157- Nghe An Province’s Vinh City Priority Infrastructure and Urban Resilience Development Project – Procurement Plan – World Bank
- The Fiscal Multipliers Narrative of Sub-Saharan Africa, WP/26/12, January 2026 – IMF eLibrary
- Japan’s Kihara says will take appropriate action on forex according to Japan-US joint statement
- Japanese yen pushes higher as intervention risks mount
That’s a wrap on forex and economics today 🌍. Which currency pair or macro trend are you watching?
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