Naira rebounds at official market, closes at N780/$1
Buoyed by the news of the planned injection of a substantial amount of foreign exchange by Saudi Arabia into Nigeria’s forex market to boost liquidity, the Naira appreciated against the dollar on Friday and closed at a new monthly high of N780.14/$1 at the official market.
The local currency closed at N780.14 to a dollar at the close of business on Friday, data from the Nigerian Autonomous Foreign Exchange Market (“NAFEM”) window where forex is officially traded, indicated.
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This represents an N216.61 gain or a 27.77% increase in Nigeria compared to the N996.75 it closed on Thursday.
The intraday high recorded was N1096.17/$1, while the intraday low was N700.00/$1, representing a wide spread of N396.17/$1.
Data from the NAFEM window revealed that the forex turnover at the close of the trading on Friday was $84.02 million, which represented a 63.24 percent decline compared to the previous day’s figure.
However, the naira traded for N1150/$1 at the Bureaux De Change (BDC) window on Friday.
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