The improving fortune of the naira at the parallel market was reversed on Tuesday as the local currency depreciated to N790 per dollar.
N710 it traded on Friday morningThe development is in sharp contrast to the N175 appreciation recorded a week ago when the parallel market exchange rate reduced fromCurrency traders known as Bureaux De Change operators , who spoke to TheCable on Tuesday in Lagos, attributed the depreciation to rising demand for the greenback by customers which worsened demand-supply dynamics.“People are coming to buy but we don’t have enough dollars to meet demand.
“Also, people now know that the rumour about America not accepting dollars printed below 2021 is not true. So, they keep coming to buy”. On the official market side, the local currency depreciated by 0.06 percent to close at N446 on Monday, according to details on FMDQ OTC Securities Exchange — a platform that oversees official foreign-exchange trading in Nigeria.An exchange rate of N447 to the dollar was the highest rate recorded within the day’s trading before it settled at N446.
It sold for as low as N439.83 to the dollar within the day’s trading. A total of $63.83 million was traded in foreign exchange at the official investors and exporters window window.
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