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Naira At Lowest Level In 43 Years, Now N305/dollar by anomsodi(m): 2:29am On Jan 14, 2016
As stock market losses peak at N1.2 trillion
*Market capitalization down by 12.36 per cent
By Emeka Anaeto, Economy Editor & Babajide Komolafe
LAGOS—The financial sector appears to have entered a heightened pressure, yesterday, as both the foreign exchange and stock market sustained major negative trends.
The Naira depreciated further to a 43-year low at N305 per dollar as scarcity of dollars intensified in the unofficial market.
From an average of N287 per dollar on Tuesday, the parallel market exchange rate rose to an average of N305 per dollar across the country.
Similarly, the new year stock market haemorrhage entered the eighth day yesterday, with a total N1.22 trillion losses to investors, giving a year-to-date decline of 12.36 per cent in market capitalisation.
Naira-Dollar
The market key index, the Nigerian Stock Exchange All Share Index, NSE ASI, declined year-to-date by same margin.
The stock exchange, which opened this year at market capitalisation of N9.851 trillion began a free fall till yesterday, closing at N8.63 trillion while the NSE ASI which opened the year at 28,642.25 points closed yesterday at 25,103.05 points.
The losses were heightened in the last 48 hours with a cumulative two-day loss of N430 billion following the escalated foreign exchange management crises which came with CBN’s announcement of its decision to cease sale of foreign exchange to BDCs on account of the precarious state the operators had forced the entire economy.
Since Monday when the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) stopped weekly dollar sales to Bureaux De Change (BDCs), the Naira has been depreciating against the dollar.
BDC sources who confirmed the development to Vanguard , however, said that the exchange rate situation is uncertain as the rate changes from time to time. Vanguard investigation revealed that though the exchange rate touched N305 in major cities like Lagos, Abuja and Kano, it dropped slightly to between N295 and N300 per dollar in Lagos and Abuja at the close of business, while it closed at N305 in Kano.
Chief Executive Officer, H.J Trust BDC, Mr. Harrison Owoh, told Vanguard that the market is fluid.
“You cannot quote any rate for anybody now because the rate is changing every time.”
An Abuja based BDC operator who spoke to Vanguard on condition of anonymity said that the rate closed in Abuja at N298 but was above N300 during the day. He however said that it was difficult to quote any specific rate now as the situation was unpredictable. He opined that the rate would stabilize by next week, when the market would have absorbed the impact of the new CBN policy.
Financial analysts believe that the CBN’s state-of-the-economy address which came with the BDCs forex ban are having immediate negative effects on the economy, causing investors to withdraw from the Nigerian bourse to safer securities on the continent.
CBN justifies action against BDCs
Justifying the ban, the CBN Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele, had said: “This fall in oil prices also implies that the CBN’s monthly foreign exchange earnings has fallen from as high as US$3.2 billion to current levels of as low as US$1 billion.
“Yet, the demand for foreign exchange by mostly domestic importers has risen significantly. For example, the last we had oil prices at about US$50 per barrel for an extended period of time was in 2005. “At that time, our average import bill was N148.3 billion per month.
‘’In stark contrast, our average import bill for the first nine months of 2015 is N917.6 billion per month, even though oil prices are now less than US$35 per barrel.
“The net effect of these combined forces unfortunately is the depletion of our foreign exchange reserves.
‘’As of June 2014, the stock of Foreign Exchange Reserves stood at about US$37.3 billion but has declined to around US$28.0 billion as of today.
“With the current economic realities in the country, the NSE, with the aim of hitting N200 trillion market cap by 2019, may well be moving away from its target.
Reps speaker meets BDC operators
Meanwhile, the Speaker of the House of Representatives yesterday held a closed door meeting with the leadership of the Association of Bureaux De Change Operators of Nigeria (ABCON) over the continued depreciation of the naira. The meeting was still ongoing as at the time of going to press.
Also today the Director General of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, Mr. Oscar Onyema is expected to present the market outlook where investors’ sentiment is expected to be shaped.






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Re: Naira At Lowest Level In 43 Years, Now N305/dollar by gtrust: 2:49am On Jan 14, 2016
Damn!!!!!

Could become a blessing in disguise if PMB works our constitution into a true federalism now.
Make the federal government weak and states stronger and more independent.

Probably the best time for this as federal government is becoming so unattractive these days. Dollars have disappeared!!!

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Re: Naira At Lowest Level In 43 Years, Now N305/dollar by Pidggin(f): 3:06am On Jan 14, 2016
Our Naira will soon be rendered useless if things continue like this.

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Re: Naira At Lowest Level In 43 Years, Now N305/dollar by ORACLE1975(m): 3:09am On Jan 14, 2016
Devaluation now
Re: Naira At Lowest Level In 43 Years, Now N305/dollar by robinicule(m): 3:17am On Jan 14, 2016
Re: Naira At Lowest Level In 43 Years, Now N305/dollar by Nobody: 3:20am On Jan 14, 2016
Like play like play, naira to dollar will be 500 naira. GEJ inherited dollar at 165 naira, he left it at 210 naira over the course of 5 yrs...very reasonable if you ask me. However under Buhari barely 6 months in office, it has gone from 210 to 305 naira within just 6 months...this is disastrous and an invitation to economic depression. You can pretend all is well because your party is in power, turn bind eye to every indication of possible economic depression. This country will be run into anarchy in a matter months....oil revenue is down by 150% , naira losing its value immensely, importers and traders cannot find dollars, multinationals are folding up, unemployment is high, food costs have quadrupled, tension in the country...Shia, Biazfra, e.t.c. I'm not saying these indicators are faults of this government....no not my point, my point is these are indicators of imminent anarchy. YOU CAN PRETEND AS MUCH AS YOU WANT.

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Re: Naira At Lowest Level In 43 Years, Now N305/dollar by Nobody: 3:25am On Jan 14, 2016
thats what you get when venza lambo bugatti aston martin ferrari rollsroyce cardilac etc gives all their best features to a wolfswagen bettle of 1984
cant still understand why vibrant youths who are graduates and some undergratuates went out there and voted in some one who did not pass SSCE
can an hausa man run an economy? the answer is yes but only in the downward direction though.........................
enjoy your change people, you asked for it
for my type that does not even have the PVC congrats we will win
for those like me who pray for the zoo to die, our prayers are working, keep praying
the zoo must fall i tell you
EZIOLWU CHINEKE

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Re: Naira At Lowest Level In 43 Years, Now N305/dollar by Trut(m): 3:26am On Jan 14, 2016
Odiegwu grin

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Re: Naira At Lowest Level In 43 Years, Now N305/dollar by DaBullIT(m): 4:05am On Jan 14, 2016
See erdyots talking trash

Some even bold enough to say GEJ left it stable and better


Even USA as a world economy and world power would feel it if someone embezzles $2.1B


How would Buhari stabilize the economy if all the monies that's supposed to generate interest and Value has been looted ?

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Re: Naira At Lowest Level In 43 Years, Now N305/dollar by fr3do(m): 4:15am On Jan 14, 2016
I paid for a vpn service last 2 weeks, it should have cost me about 700 naira but 1200 naira was deducted from my account, cry hook me for throat.

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Re: Naira At Lowest Level In 43 Years, Now N305/dollar by kahal29: 5:38am On Jan 14, 2016
We are behaving as if we don't know the cause. The simple cause is that Nigerian economy is almost 90% dependent on oil sales. Now that oil has crashed from above $100 plus down to $34. And again nobody is buying the oil anymore. Our biggest buyer the United States is even exporting crude now. Our local productive capacity for export is almost at zero level because no power supply. So where do you get the money. There are no infrastructures on ground to provide enabling environment for people to productively engage in a small and medium scale economic activities and thrive on their own without depending on govt for survival. Everybody want to receive salary every month but where is the money now?

Now there is no money to meet the recurrent expenditures budgetary segment let alone capital expenditures. All the trillions made in the past from oil sales have been looted and mismanaged. We shall all pay the price.

- Fr Mbaka

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Re: Naira At Lowest Level In 43 Years, Now N305/dollar by ZUBY77(m): 5:44am On Jan 14, 2016
DaBullIT:
See erdyots talking trash

Some even bold enough to say GEJ left it stable and better


Even USA as a world economy and world power would feel it if someone embezzles $2.1B


How would Buhari stabilize the economy if all the monies that's supposed to generate interest and Value has been looted ?

Zombie. Looks like you don't get it.

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Re: Naira At Lowest Level In 43 Years, Now N305/dollar by Nobody: 5:56am On Jan 14, 2016
Every morning, we all wake up to depressing news
Seriously, when will this nightmare end?


#Pray4Nigeria.

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Re: Naira At Lowest Level In 43 Years, Now N305/dollar by Omenkata: 5:58am On Jan 14, 2016
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DaBullIT:
See erdyots talking trash

Some even bold enough to say GEJ left it stable and better


Even USA as a world economy and world power would feel it if someone embezzles $2.1B


How would Buhari stabilize the economy if all the monies that's supposed to generate interest and Value has been looted ?
[/s]
trash trash trash
Rubbish post

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Re: Naira At Lowest Level In 43 Years, Now N305/dollar by Omenkata: 6:00am On Jan 14, 2016
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kahal29:
We are behaving as if we don't know the cause. The simple cause is that Nigerian economy is almost 90% dependent on oil sales. Now that oil has crashed from above $100 plus down to $34. And again nobody is buying the oil anymore. Our biggest buyer the United States is even exporting crude now. Our local productive capacity for export is almost at zero level because no power supply. So where do you get the money. There are no infrastructures on ground to provide enabling environment for people to productively engage in a small and medium scale economic activities and thrive on their own without depending on govt for survival. Everybody want to receive salary every month but where is the money now?

Now there is no money to meet the recurrent expenditures budgetary segment let alone capital expenditures. All the trillions made in the past from oil sales have been looted and mismanaged. We shall all pay the price.

- Fr Mbaka
[/s]

what's this one saying

mr man propaganda is not working any longer can't you see that Nigerians are now seeing the scam called the gworo chewing bastard burukutu sipping gorilla mumuhamado mumuharii?

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Re: Naira At Lowest Level In 43 Years, Now N305/dollar by NavierStokes(m): 6:09am On Jan 14, 2016
They say the previous administration was clueless and all that, how much was stolen in all 5 years of the administration? This administratiom comes in "clue-more" and the first 12 days of January 2016 alone, has seen the stock market alone lose 1.2trillion NGN. Then you begin to wonder. In my opinion from an economic viewpoint incompetence is worse than corruption.

All what we are experiencing is an offshoot of having a government whose confidence greatly exceeds her competence, it is a sure recipe for disaster.

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Re: Naira At Lowest Level In 43 Years, Now N305/dollar by Meriekriss: 6:11am On Jan 14, 2016
Funny part is that little or nothing is being done to avert the situation so this shouldn't be met with surprise whenever we read such news...




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Re: Naira At Lowest Level In 43 Years, Now N305/dollar by tartar9(m): 6:17am On Jan 14, 2016
new2020:
Like play like play, naira to dollar will be 500 naira. GEJ inherited dollar at 165 naira, he left it at 210 naira over the course of 5 yrs...very reasonable. However under Buhari barely 6 months in office, it has gone from 210 to 305 naira within just 6 months...this is disastrous and an invitation to economic depression. You can pretend all is well because your party is in power, turn bind eye to every indication of possible economic depression. This country will be run into anarchy in a matter months....oil revenue is down by 150% , naira losing its value immensely, importers and traders cannot find dollars, multinationals are folding up, unemployment is high, food costs have quadrupled, tension in the country...Shia, Biazfra, e.t.c. I'm not saying these indicators are faults of this government....no not my point, my point is these are indicators of imminent anarchy. YOU CAN PRETEND AS MUCH AS YOU WANT.
stop acting like you dont know the cause.don't also forget oil was $110 during gej's clueless administration.we won't be suffering now if he prepared for such scenerio.

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Re: Naira At Lowest Level In 43 Years, Now N305/dollar by Super1759: 6:29am On Jan 14, 2016
Omg!
Re: Naira At Lowest Level In 43 Years, Now N305/dollar by Dosinspector(m): 6:33am On Jan 14, 2016
Honestly speaking,asides corruption fight,Buhari knows nothing, Kemi adeosun of a lady better be changed on time,soon we will be landed on the same level with zimbabwe,
Re: Naira At Lowest Level In 43 Years, Now N305/dollar by Nobody: 6:40am On Jan 14, 2016
tartar9:

stop acting like you dont know the cause.don't also forget oil was $110 during gej's clueless administration.we won't be suffering now if he prepared for such scenerio.

Another shameless slave from the SW. GEJ is the only administration you haters from the waste like to focus on. Have you asked about the $10 billion windfall that disappeared under IBB, The missing suitcases under Buhari regime, the $billions of misappropriated under Abacha, Abdulsalami, OBJ? Where were you on Monday when Swiz bank returned over $300 million more of Abacha loot? Swine. Why the focus on only GEJ...oh he is from SS and maybe Igbo...surrounded himself with Igbos? Wasn't oil price under Obj and Yaradua $65 - $98? If you are a student of economics you will know that there isn't much difference between $10 oil price in the 90s and $100 in the 2000s in comparative value when you factor inflation. How much was a brand new car in the 90s...300,000 naira? Can you buy a brand new car today or 10 yrs for under 2million naira? How strong was naira to dollar in the 90s? When oil price was $10 in the early 90s, you could go to market and buy a day worth of food with 50 kobo? Can you buy a day worth of food today with 10,000 naira? Bloody tribalistic hypocrites...you hate GEJ because he is from the SS and most of you even call him Igbo...Wicked mofos!

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Re: Naira At Lowest Level In 43 Years, Now N305/dollar by Xapio: 6:42am On Jan 14, 2016
tartar9:

stop acting like you dont know the cause.don't also forget oil was $110 during gej's clueless administration.we won't be suffering now if he prepared for such scenerio.
shut up..where were you when Amechi and his co criminals that called themselves governors were fighting GEJ to share the money saved for a day like this? You guys hypocrisy stinks angry

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Re: Naira At Lowest Level In 43 Years, Now N305/dollar by EternalTruths: 7:04am On Jan 14, 2016
kahal29:
We are behaving as if we don't know the cause. The simple cause is that Nigerian economy is almost 90% dependent on oil sales. Now that oil has crashed from above $100 plus down to $34. And again nobody is buying the oil anymore. Our biggest buyer the United States is even exporting crude now. Our local productive capacity for export is almost at zero level because no power supply. So where do you get the money. There are no infrastructures on ground to provide enabling environment for people to productively engage in a small and medium scale economic activities and thrive on their own without depending on govt for survival. Everybody want to receive salary every month but where is the money now?

Now there is no money to meet the recurrent expenditures budgetary segment let alone capital expenditures. All the trillions made in the past from oil sales have been looted and mismanaged. We shall all pay the price.

- Fr Mbaka
DaBullIT:
See erdyots talking trash
Some even bold enough to say GEJ left it stable and better
Even USA as a world economy and world power would feel it if someone embezzles $2.1B
How would Buhari stabilize the economy if all the monies that's supposed to generate interest and Value has been looted ?
tartar9:

stop acting like you dont know the cause.don't also forget oil was $110 during gej's clueless administration.we won't be suffering now if he prepared for such scenerio.


True Federalism is the solution

Why .?

Because all states have a resource they can process and export to increase the inflow of dollars.

The question is

Why is Buhari not considering True Federalism.?

Until you guys answer that question, you won't know how useless Buhari is cool

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Re: Naira At Lowest Level In 43 Years, Now N305/dollar by Confusionist(m): 7:06am On Jan 14, 2016
you can only confuse yourself more. it's no biggie a maths.

when Agriculture was the norm, the naira was stronger than the dollar...

since oil came onboard, it has been unstable - fluctuating with the international oil price.

now, for al ur wailers, keep making yourself happy with bad news - I hope u will have more so as to stay happy.

by the time the world oil crashes, no one will have a tent to go back to.

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Re: Naira At Lowest Level In 43 Years, Now N305/dollar by Confusionist(m): 7:11am On Jan 14, 2016
Xapio:
shut up..where were you when Amechi and his co criminals that called themselves governors were fighting GEJ to share the money saved for a day like this? You guys hypocrisy stinks angry
even if common sense is not common, u can always upgrade on Google play store or simply present u got one.

the excess crude oil cash is an excess after every dime has been constitutional saved. and hey, it didn't start in GEJ's era. the reason is for the states to develop themselves with a free cash.

we all know the PDP dnt give a fucck how the cash was spent because it never goes into record of the state govt. and as foolish as ur GEJ was, he didn't care to knw what the cash was used for.

I dnt blame the govnrs who didn't want frog eye NOI and GEJ to help them save it...grin money dey disappear for coffers. maybe na hellgate we go deyvtag now and not Dasukigate.
Re: Naira At Lowest Level In 43 Years, Now N305/dollar by TIMEISWISDOM(m): 7:12am On Jan 14, 2016
new2020:

Another shameless slave from the SW. GEJ is the only administration you haters from the waste like to focus on. Have you asked about the $10 billion windfall that disappeared under IBB, The missing suitcases under Buhari regime, the $billions of misappropriated under Abacha, Abdulsalami, OBJ? Where were you on Monday when Swiz bank returned over $300 million more of Abacha loot? Swine. Why the focus on only GEJ...oh he is from SS and maybe Igbo...surrounded himself with Igbos? Wasn't oil price under Obj and Yaradua $65 - $98? If you are a student of economics you will know that there isn't much difference between $10 oil price in the 90s and $100 in the 2000s in comparative value when you factor inflation. How much was a brand new car in the 90s...300,000 naira? Can you buy a brand new car today or 10 yrs for under 2million naira? How strong was naira to dollar in the 90s? When oil price was $10 in the early 90s, you could go to market and buy a day worth of food with 50 kobo? Can you buy a day worth of food today with 10,000 naira?[/b]Bloody tribalistic hypocrites...you hate GEJ because he is from the SS and most of you even call him Igbo...Wicked mofos!
Nigerians are too mentally lazy to think through the bolded

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Re: Naira At Lowest Level In 43 Years, Now N305/dollar by Parcks(m): 7:19am On Jan 14, 2016
iamkeyz:
thats what you get when venza lambo bugatti aston martin ferrari rollsroyce cardilac etc gives all their best features to a wolfswagen bettle of 1984
cant still understand why vibrant youths who are graduates and some undergratuates went out there and voted in some one who did not pass SSCE
can an hausa man run an economy? the answer is yes but only in the downward direction though.........................
enjoy your change people, you asked for it
for my type that does not even have the PVC congrats we will win
for those like me who pray for the zoo to die, our prayers are working, keep praying
the zoo must fall i tell you
EZIOLWU CHINEKE
Re: Naira At Lowest Level In 43 Years, Now N305/dollar by Parcks(m): 7:23am On Jan 14, 2016
iamkeyz:
thats what you get when venza lambo bugatti aston martin ferrari rollsroyce cardilac etc gives all their best features to a wolfswagen bettle of 1984
cant still understand why vibrant youths who are graduates and some undergratuates went out there and voted in some one who did not pass SSCE
can an hausa man run an economy? the answer is yes but only in the downward direction though.........................
enjoy your change people, you asked for it
for my type that does not even have the PVC congrats we will win
for those like me who pray for the zoo to die, our prayers are working, keep praying
the zoo must fall i tell you
EZIOLWU CHINEKE
will u just stop being childish. U shld knw that every negative situation currently affecting d nation will have either direct or indiret effects on u...e.g slight increase in tranport, food items, etc. Btw, I'm igbo and i pray for peace in nigeria
Re: Naira At Lowest Level In 43 Years, Now N305/dollar by Xapio: 7:30am On Jan 14, 2016
Confusionist:
even if common sense is not common, u can always upgrade on Google play store or simply present u got one.

the excess crude oil cash is an excess after every dime has been constitutional saved. and hey, it didn't start in GEJ's era. the reason is for the states to develop themselves with a free cash.

we all know the PDP dnt give a fucck how the cash was spent because it never goes into record of the state govt. and as foolish as ur GEJ was, he didn't care to knw what the cash was used for.

I dnt blame the govnrs who didn't want frog eye NOI and GEJ to help them save it...grin money dey disappear for coffers. maybe na hellgate we go deyvtag now and not Dasukigate.
you are a sycophant, so I don't have time to spend on a lowlife like you..Now you can run along and bask in your euphoria of foolishness..

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Re: Naira At Lowest Level In 43 Years, Now N305/dollar by bamite(m): 7:44am On Jan 14, 2016
Am cumming
Re: Naira At Lowest Level In 43 Years, Now N305/dollar by Nobody: 7:54am On Jan 14, 2016
Which way Nigeria??
Re: Naira At Lowest Level In 43 Years, Now N305/dollar by Bevista: 8:02am On Jan 14, 2016
N320/$ imminent as oil price flirts with $30 mark.
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For those thinking that the former president did a better job, I'd like to refresh our minds. Oil price collapsed from around $115 in June 2014 to around $70 in Nov 2014 and then to around $50 in Feb 2015. The CBN first responded by depreciating the Naira from N150/$ to N168/$ in Nov 2014 and then to N197/$ in Feb 2015. The reality is that political leaders are usually powerless to the forces of Free Market.

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Currency depreciation (in oil exporting countries) is a natural course of action when oil prices decline. This is the case currently for Angola, Libya, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, etc. Even countries like Canada and Norway are also experiencing same fate.
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The appropriate thing for the CBN to do is to adjust the official exchange rate to around N250/$. This will help close the divergence between the official rate and the parallel rate. Grand standing is completely unnecessary. The president, as a matter of urgency, should stop having a definitive opinion about what the exchange rate should be. This only serves some futile National Pride but with dire economic consequences.
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Those blaming the current administration for the fate of the Naira are either completely ignorant or mischievous. Anyone with some modicum of economic intellect will understand the correlation between oil prices and the exchange rate of an oil exporting country. It becomes much worse when the country is import-dependent. The blame goes to previous administrations for paying lip service to diversification of the economy and for not shoring up our FX Reserves during boom periods.
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If Saudi Arabia with FX Reserves of over $750bn, Russia (over $450bn), Canada (over $500bn), etc can see their currencies plummeting due to declining oil prices, then Nigeria (with FX Reserves of $28bn) must be a complete joke for trying to maintain the strength of the Naira.
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I won't bother going into the implications and all the interwoven dynamics of oil price, exchange rate and the overall economy.

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