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Why Naira Is Appreciating And How Long It May Last by femisplash: 10:51am On Dec 06
The naira has seen steady appreciation since the Eurobond sales and the introduction of the Electronic Foreign Exchange Matching System (EFEMS) on Monday.

Data from the Central Bank of Nigeria showed that the naira on Wednesday appreciated to N1,608/$1 at the Nigerian Foreign Exchange Market (NFEM). This is from N1625/$1 on Tuesday and N1660 on Monday.

Analysts have projected that this appreciation will likely remain till early next year.

A source who wants to be anonymous said that the gains the naira has witnessed stem from the transparency in the foreign exchange market due to the EFEMS, boosting confidence in the market.

“This transparency has shown that the banks had more liquidity (dollar supply) before the launch of the platforms,” the source said.

On Monday the CBN kick-started the EFEMS, an electronic platform introduced to tackle speculation and improve transparency in Nigeria’s FX market. It automatically matches buy and sell orders, promoting fairness and efficiency in FX trading. Financial experts have expressed optimism about EFEMS’ potential to address persistent challenges affecting the naira and Nigeria’s FX reserves.

The EFEMS system allows authorised dealers, including commercial banks, to place buy and sell orders in real-time. Transactions are automatically matched based on predetermined rules, ensuring swift execution and real-time visibility for market participants and regulators.

Similarly, Gbolohan Ologunro, portfolio manager at FBNQuest said that the country has seen more dollar inflows as Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs) have been quite active in the foreign exchange market and that’s because the yield on one-year bills has made it more attractive for them to hold more naira assets.

At the last three primary treasury bills auctions, yields have been at record highs, peaking at 30.71 percent, before dropping to 29.75 percent yesterday.

On Wednesday the one-year NT-bills saw the largest bid this year of about N2.53 trillion.

Uduak Jacob, portfolio manager at Comercio Partner Asset Management also mentioned that FPIs have been flooding the market with dollars.

“FPIs have been flooding the market with dollars, in anticipation of an OMO auction. Some even participated in the NTB auction yesterday,” Uduak said.

Yields at recent OMO auctions are at a record high of 32 percent.

Ologunro mentioned that alongside yields which have attracted foreign investors, the newly introduced EFEMS platform has boosted confidence in the FX market.

“If the platform continues to function efficiently and the yields continue to remain at current levels till next year, FPIs will continue to have faith in the naira and will continue to hold naira assets and this will increase dollar inflows,”.

[b]“These inflows will be sustained by the sales from the Eurobond into the system by January which will likely drive reserves to $45 billion, and continue the naira’s appreciation to February,”[/b]Ologunro said

Nigeria revisited the international bond market on Monday and sold $2.2 billion worth of Eurobonds across two tranches after being oversubscribed to the tune of $9.1 billion.

The Federal Government sold $700 million worth of the 6.5-year Eurobond maturing in 2031 at a coupon rate of 9.625 percent and $1.5 billion of the 10-year tenure at 10.375 percent.

Analysts at CSL stockbrokers said in a recent report that on the positive side, the proceeds from the Eurobond issuance, expected to flow into Nigeria’s foreign exchange reserves by December 9, 2024, are projected to boost the reserves to over $42 billion by year-end.

“This increase could provide the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) with greater capacity to support the naira in the near to medium term, potentially leading to a modest appreciation of the domestic currency,” the report stated.
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Re: Why Naira Is Appreciating And How Long It May Last by femisplash: 11:00am On Dec 06
EFEMS is the joker... Cardoso Solution.
CBN had failed several times to regulate informal platforms, unofficial markets were pushing back, BDC was a parallel authority, dictating prices at speculative rates, Banks were sitting ontop undeclared dollar windfalls, thus greatly frustrating CBN efforts, all regulations and guidelines appeared to be failing. At last, CBN is beating them at their own game by creating a platform whereby all key operators are brought together and every single transaction is transparent and traceable, real time transactions at market-driven prices, automatic pairing of buyers and sellers, efficiently handling high volume of trades, data-driven algorithm, reduces manual intervention, standardized transaction sizes, a level playing field with markert predictability and stability and enhancing regulatory compliance.

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Re: Why Naira Is Appreciating And How Long It May Last by commoditiesnig: 11:29am On Dec 06
Goodnews for the Naira.

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Re: Why Naira Is Appreciating And How Long It May Last by ganilas007: 11:29am On Dec 06
It can only get better.

God bless federal Republic of Nigeria 🇳🇬❤️

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Re: Why Naira Is Appreciating And How Long It May Last by Wealthoptulent(m): 11:29am On Dec 06
within a pile TIME
the TIME can be compared with duration of a MAN whom wify left with TIME in BED reasons (NOT LASTING inBED)
femisplash:

https://businessday.ng/news/article/why-naira-is-appreciating-and-how-long-it-may-last/?amp
Re: Why Naira Is Appreciating And How Long It May Last by medropoly(m): 11:30am On Dec 06
If only its appreciation will reflects on the price of food, transport and commodities in reality.

THEN IT IS AS USELESS AS TPAIN

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Re: Why Naira Is Appreciating And How Long It May Last by aylagos(m): 11:30am On Dec 06
How much today I need dollar
Re: Why Naira Is Appreciating And How Long It May Last by richmond500: 11:31am On Dec 06
I have noticed it for 10days now, it has been on a steady appreciation

I hope Cardosso is not using one kind of voodo economics

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Re: Why Naira Is Appreciating And How Long It May Last by Hardebayo(m): 11:31am On Dec 06
Okay
Re: Why Naira Is Appreciating And How Long It May Last by Ombre(m): 11:31am On Dec 06
grin
Re: Why Naira Is Appreciating And How Long It May Last by diamond68: 11:32am On Dec 06
Hmm

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Re: Why Naira Is Appreciating And How Long It May Last by Nazgul: 11:32am On Dec 06
It's still on N1,606. The appreciation isn't massive.

Question is how sustainable is this appreciation? Something similar happened some months back. It even appreciated to 1k to $1. Then crashed after some weeks.

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Re: Why Naira Is Appreciating And How Long It May Last by just2endowed: 11:32am On Dec 06
its normal. during december there seems to be significant inflow of dollars from abroad and every family will want to send money home to theior love ones. the inflow should stop by january.

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Re: Why Naira Is Appreciating And How Long It May Last by Kpartners: 11:33am On Dec 06
Let's see how far they can go
If it can be $1- #1,000 and remain stable for the next couple of years, it will be good

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Re: Why Naira Is Appreciating And How Long It May Last by sofeo(m): 11:33am On Dec 06
Only for the main term
Re: Why Naira Is Appreciating And How Long It May Last by kelvindj98: 11:33am On Dec 06
Which one is why is naira appreciating. Una no want make e appreciate? When e dey depreciate una no ask question, Una just dey abuse Tinubu. Some of u Nigerians sef. U want bad things to keep happening so u can come here and be shouting Balablu, T-pain etc.

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Re: Why Naira Is Appreciating And How Long It May Last by dominique(f): 11:34am On Dec 06
I hope it continues to gain steadily and not drop again

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Re: Why Naira Is Appreciating And How Long It May Last by oluayebenz: 11:34am On Dec 06
aylagos:
How much today I need dollar

1550... How many do you want? Let's deal

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Re: Why Naira Is Appreciating And How Long It May Last by lexy2014: 11:35am On Dec 06
femisplash:
EFEMS is the joker... Cardoso Solution.
CBN had failed several times to regulate informal platforms, unofficial markets were pushing back, BDC was a parallel authority, dictating prices at speculative rates, Banks were sitting ontop undeclared dollar windfalls, thus greatly frustrating CBN efforts, all regulations and guidelines appeared to be failing. At last, CBN is beating them at their own game by creating a platform whereby all key operators are brought together and every single transaction is transparent and traceable, real time transactions at market-driven prices, efficiently handling high volume of trades, data-driven algorithm, standardized transaction sizes, a level playing field with markert predictability and stability and enhancing regulatory compliance.

Is Binance no longer the problem?.

At what price did this administration meet dollar?

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Re: Why Naira Is Appreciating And How Long It May Last by Odjirigho: 11:35am On Dec 06
Loveee
Re: Why Naira Is Appreciating And How Long It May Last by PressMyButton: 11:37am On Dec 06
just2endowed:
its normal. during december there seems to be significant inflow of dollars from abroad and every family will want to send money home to theior love ones. the inflow should stop by january.
dey play.. There're more dollars inflows with euro bond and more FPI.

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Re: Why Naira Is Appreciating And How Long It May Last by Bizaustine: 11:38am On Dec 06
Let it go down to a sensible rate.

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Re: Why Naira Is Appreciating And How Long It May Last by kelvindj98: 11:38am On Dec 06
Now to answer your question. The CBN has introduced a new currency trading platform where all banks and currency dealers trade the dollar and naira. This new platform is much more transparent and well regulated and it reduces hoarding of dollars. This combined with more dollars available in the country due to inflows from abroad is responsible for the drop in dollars.

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Re: Why Naira Is Appreciating And How Long It May Last by oluayebenz: 11:38am On Dec 06
PressMyButton:

dey play.. There're more dollars inflows with euro bond and more FPI.

Don't mind them

All of them hoarding fx go cry

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Re: Why Naira Is Appreciating And How Long It May Last by wellmax(m): 11:39am On Dec 06
Gradually this will get better.

Rates are dropping and i see Nigerians abroad sending money before it drops further, this will also led to further drops in rates.

Kudos to Cardosso.

God bless Nigeria.

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Re: Why Naira Is Appreciating And How Long It May Last by Kukutente23: 11:39am On Dec 06
Let us remember that APC took naira from 180 to 700 in 8 years, and then 700 to 1700 in 1 year before they start gaslighting

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Re: Why Naira Is Appreciating And How Long It May Last by jmoore(m): 11:39am On Dec 06
We have seen it before. Whenever CBN cabals want to buy dollars at very low price, they start their voodoo economics.

Naira will depreciate again and the cabals will sell those dollars to get profit.

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Re: Why Naira Is Appreciating And How Long It May Last by chrisxxx(m): 11:40am On Dec 06
Christmas. Diaspora sending dollars home.

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Re: Why Naira Is Appreciating And How Long It May Last by GreaterFuture(m): 11:40am On Dec 06
This doesn't seem like enough reasons...

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Re: Why Naira Is Appreciating And How Long It May Last by just2endowed: 11:40am On Dec 06
PressMyButton:

dey play.. There're more dollars inflows with euro bond and more FPI.

Analysts have projected that this appreciation will likely remain till early next year.

while cbn is saying otherwise, i analyze that the inflow will slow down from january.,

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Re: Why Naira Is Appreciating And How Long It May Last by PDPdestroyer(m): 11:41am On Dec 06
Some people will be very sad with this developmentgrin

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Re: Why Naira Is Appreciating And How Long It May Last by MrEverest(m): 11:41am On Dec 06
Try and luck Kalo kalo people. Later, it will still jump to 1800 to $1.

Tinubu and his Yoruba government has failed miserably.

Meanwhile, this normally happens over the years. During Christmas, there is always heavy remittance inflow thus crashing dollar rates. I even refused to buy dollar because I’m waiting for December. But these confused fellows are busy saying trash.

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