{
  "id": 7308656,
  "title": "BREAKING: J.P. Morgan includes Nigeria in new emerging-market bond index with 7.4% weight",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/14/breaking-j-p-morgan-includes-nigeria-in-new-emerging-market-bond",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-09-14T11:29:42.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Nairametrics",
    "slug": "nairametrics",
    "url": "https://nairametrics.com/2026/09/14/breaking-j-p-morgan-includes-nigeria-in-new-emerging-market-bond-index-with-7-4-weight/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "J.P. Morgan has recently introduced a new benchmark, the Government Bond Index–Emerging Markets Edge (GBI-EM Edge), which includes Nigeria among its constituent countries. The country is assigned a 7.4% weight in this benchmark, indicating a significant presence in the index. This move comes more than a decade after Nigeria was removed from J.P. Morgan's flagship emerging-market government bond index in 2015. The GBI-EM Edge specifically targets frontier emerging markets and local-currency government debt, tracking approximately $328 billion in debt across 425 instruments in 26 markets and 24 currencies. With $17.47 billion in eligible Nigerian government bonds, the country's inclusion in this new index could potentially enhance visibility and attract international fixed-income investors seeking higher yields.",
  "summary": "J.P. Morgan has included Nigeria in its newly introduced Government Bond Index–Emerging Markets Edge (GBI-EM Edge), assigning the country a 7.4% weighting in the benchmark designed to track local-currency government debt across frontier emerging markets. The post BREAKING: J.P. Morgan includes Nigeria in new emerging-market bond index with 7.4% weight appeared first on Nairametrics .",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Nairametrics",
        "title": "RMB Nigeria advises on BOI’s ₦274.18 billion domestic bond issuance",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/14/rmb-nigeria-advises-on-bois-274-18-billion-domestic-bond-issuance",
        "published": "2026-09-14T10:06:11.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}