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CBN denies devaluing Naira as calls grow louder - Bloomberg

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Central Bank of Nigeria dismissed a report that it had devalued the naira as traders raised bets for it to weaken by almost a third, days after President Bola Tinubu said his administration will seek to end the nation’s multiple-currency regime

The CBN said a media report claiming it had devalued the naira by 26% to 630 per dollar was inaccurate. The exchange rate is N465 per dollar and “has been stable around that rate for a while,” it said on Twitter.

Tinubu announced plans to adopt a uniform exchange rate in his inauguration speech on May 29. Nigeria has numerous exchange rates, dominated by a tightly controlled official rate, that cuts off access to many businesses and individuals, which in turn drives demand to the unauthorized black market. The spread between the managed and parallel markets is almost 60%. Tinubu’s proposal may help attract investors who had shunned Africa’s biggest economy. 

Non-deliverable forward contracts on the naira are pricing in a depreciation of about 21% over the next three months and those with a 12-month tenor 32%. 

The moves reflect speculation by some market participants that authorities will allow for a steep decline in the naira.

Lagos-based brokerage, Chapel Hill Denham said that the naira should be weakened above its fair value of N606.58 to the dollar. It should be devalued close to the N650 to N700 range to the dollar it trades at in the parallel market “to restore investor confidence,” analyst Tajudeen Ibrahim said in an emailed note on Wednesday.

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