{"id":27441,"date":"2018-10-18T13:06:47","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T12:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=27441"},"modified":"2018-10-21T17:51:41","modified_gmt":"2018-10-21T16:51:41","slug":"defending-naira-foreign-reserves-fall-2-1bn-in-30-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/defending-naira-foreign-reserves-fall-2-1bn-in-30-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Defending Naira: Foreign Reserves Fall $2.1bn In 30 Days"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nigeria\u2019s foreign exchange reserves have declined by $2.15 billion in the last 30 days, as the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) position itself in defence of the naira.<\/p>\n

Since the United States Federal Reserves raised interest rates on September 26, 2018, the Nigerian reserves have dropped by $1,541,891,539, as investors continue voting their monies out of the Nigerian economy.<\/p>\n

The reserves moved from $44,458,822,331 on September 26, 2018 to\u00a0$42,916,930,792 as at October 16, 2018.<\/p>\n

In a statement issued by the American central bank in September, the Fed decided to lift the benchmark overnight lending rate by a quarter of a percentage point to a range of two percent to 2.25 percent.<\/p>\n

Explaining the effects of this on the Nigerian economy and reserves, Isaac Okorafor, spokesperson of the\u00a0Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), said the\u00a0fall in reserves is due to a hike in interest rates by US Federal Reserve<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and the CBN\u2019s interventions in the forex market.<\/p>\n

He explained that investors who had left the world\u2019s biggest economy for emerging markets\u00a0like Nigeria, Brazil, China, due to low-interest rates are returning to the US, following the increase in rates.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can see that the reversal of capital flows which is eating most economies and bringing about depreciation in their currency,\u201d Okorafor had said.<\/p>

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Godwin Emefiele, the CBN governor, also explained in Bali, Indonesia, that in order to avoid depreciation in the Nigerian currency, the bank would have to defend the naira, via interventions in the foreign exchange market.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can only build reserve buffers if you want to hold on to the reserves while allowing your currency to go and wherever it goes is something else,\u201d\u00a0Emefiele had said<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a choice we have to make and at this time, the choice for Nigeria is to maintain a stable exchange rate so that businesses can plan and we don\u2019t create problems in the banking system.\u201d<\/p>\n

As at Tuesday, October 16, Nigeria\u2019s foreign reserves stood at $42,916,930,792.<\/p>\n

President Muhammadu Buhari has made it clear time and again that his government will do all in its capacity to defend the naira from further depreciation. THECABLE<\/a><\/p>\n

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