Monday’s stoppage of foreign exchange sales to Bureau De Change operators by the Central Bank of Nigeria failed to lift the naira on Tuesday as the currency exchanged for 300 against the United States dollar in Kano, 290 in Lagos and 292 in Abuja.

Financial experts said the naira would decline further, while private sector operators described the move as a welcome development.

The ban was announced on Monday, when naira trading at 285 against the dollar at the parallel market from 278 on Friday.

The Acting President, Association of Bureau De Change Operators, Alhaji Aminu Gwadabe, told one of correspondents in a telephone interview that the currency traded against the greenback at 300, 290 and 292 in Kano, Lagos and Abuja a day after the CBN announcement.

“There is cut of (dollar) supply to the market. The BDC sub-sector has been murdered. We are not coping. The naira is going to head northwards. There is no solution in sight,” Gwadabe lamented.

The Head of Investment Research, Afrinvest West Africa Limited, Mr. Ayodeji Ebo, said the stoppage of forex sale to the BDCs meant that the CBN wanted everybody to apply to the banks for dollars.

He stated, “But we feel the pressure now will move from the BDCs to the parallel market. We will see significant spike in the value of the naira at the parallel market because the little supply to the BDCs have also helped to cushion the demand at the parallel market.

“It will further compound or increase the spread between the parallel market and the interbank market. So, it will also increase round-tripping and unethical practices within the financial system.”

On the lifting of the ban on cash deposits into domiciliary accounts, Ebo said, “I am still sceptical about how this will work except they are also assuring us that if you deposit it, you can consummate business with it.”

A professor of financial economics at the University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Leo Ukpong, said, “I don’t think the stoppage of dollar sale to the BDCs will solve the problem. The currency will depreciate some more.

“This move will make the naira to weaken more as demand for dollar will skyrocket because of the short supply.”

Members of the organised private sector, however, applauded the CBN for the stopping the sale of dollars to the BDCs and lifting the ban on cash deposits into domiciliary accounts.

The President, Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, Dr. Frank Jacobs, said industrialists had earlier kicked against the funding of the BDCs by the central bank, adding that with the development, the forex could be channelled towards funding the real sector in terms of importation of raw materials.

On the removal of the restriction of cash deposits into domiciliary accounts, Jacobs said manufacturers were still waiting for more clarification as to how the money deposited could be utilised by the customers.

The Director-General, the Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture, Mr. Emmanuel Cobham, said the forex sale ban was a welcome development.

According to him, although the BDCs are necessary in the economy, they are licensed entities and should, therefore, source for their own funds.

Also speaking on the matter, the Director-General, Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Mr. Muda Yusuf, lauded the forex policy review, noting that it had addressed the concerns of economic operators.

According to him, it is a source of worry that the CBN continues to maintain its official exchange rate at N199 to the dollar at a time of dwindling forex inflow.

“The pressure on the official window will persist. The risk of round-tripping and distortions in the foreign exchange market will consequently remain high,” he said.


http://www.punchng.com/naira-crashes-to-300-against-dollar/

Dollar against naira trades at 199.60 world wide

sylvacoin:
Dollar against naira trades at 199.60 world wide

You must be living in Mars.

With this rate, I gat leave this my Obodo oyibo waka ooo....

Nigerians where is APC taking us to
APC goons where is Buhari/emefiele taking us to

Soon poor man no go fit buy garri again cous market woman go say dollar don cost..


Chisos!!!!!!!!!!
Uwa Emebigooooooo!!!!!

Buhari oooooooo!!! see your life ooooo... Is this the N1 to $1 change you promised??

Lobatan!!!

Ok

hmmmmm...The mod that banned me sha...i will NOT pray that God will ban your blessing the way you banned me

sunnyb0b0:


You must be living in Mars.

Baba Bubu!!

Just imagine

I said it....when der promised us change we no remember to ask weda na postive or negative change

President Buhari and crew system will destroy us sooner than later..A miser governing an oil rich country like Nigeria..Xpect investors to run away and economy to decline

No more buying shíts online. *sad*

Buhari is a disgrace to the black race.

we done hear this news in the morning..

Jesus!! The lowest of all time. God help this country, gotta get outta here.

sylvacoin:
Dollar against naira trades at 199.60 world wide

That's online!!!

I love this

Jesu!

Well thank God for those of us that don't operate by the economy of this world bt by heaven's economy.. even if a dollar becomes 1000 naira "my God suppliers according to His riches in glory"..

#weshallnotbemoved

#End time Change

.

Since OIL can't save us anymore..

Its time to go back to our first Love..! "Agriculture"

This is serious, what's happening to our economy?

Which Way NIGERIA??

dd

okay

FagsamPHP:
Buhari oooooooo!!! see your life ooooo... Is this the N1 to $1 change you promised??

If APC tell you to STOP, run.

If APC tell you to RUN, stop.

No matter how,I go still make am