{"id":30840,"date":"2020-09-10T13:49:19","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T13:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=30840"},"modified":"2020-09-10T13:51:20","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T13:51:20","slug":"naira-depreciates-against-dollar-on-black-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=30840","title":{"rendered":"Naira depreciates against dollar on black market"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/www.ripplesnigeria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Naira-vs-Dollar.jpg\" alt=\"NFIU pegs LGs daily cash withdrawal at N.5m\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Naira fell against the United States\u2019 dollar on the parallel market on Wednesday, closing at N445, according to data from abokiFX, which collates rates from informal street traders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The exchange rate of N443 recorded at Tuesday\u2019s session was N2 stronger than that of Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bureaux De Change operators in the country are awaiting another sales round of the dollar from the central bank,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ripplesnigeria.com\/naira-falls-to-n445-on-black-market-despite-cbns-sale-of-50m-to-bdcs\/\">having received $50 million from the apex bank<\/a>&nbsp;on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the over-the-counter spot market alternatively called the Investors and Exporters (I&amp;E) forex window, naira was quoted at N386 to a dollar on Wednesday, 21 kobo stronger than the N386.21 at which it exchanged the session before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It had touched an intraday high of N383 and a low of N386.50 against the dollar.<br>On the supply side, liquidity in the market, improved by 14.9%, expanding from $35.18 million to $40.43 million day on day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Daily&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ripplesnigeria.com\/cbn-sells-50m-to-measure-foreign-forex-demand\/\">forex<\/a>&nbsp;sales last week averaged $58.52 million relative to the $23.19 million reported in the preceding week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trade volume at the I&amp;E forex window for august totalled around $857 million compared to the $937 million recorded in July<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naira fell against the United States\u2019 dollar on the parallel market on Wednesday, closing at N445, according to data from abokiFX, which collates rates from informal street traders. 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