Naira devalues to new low against dollar
Naira has fallen further against the U.S. dollar at the authority market on Tuesday, a day after the cash recorded an irrelevant increase at the spot market. As per information delivered by The Nigerian Autonomous Foreign Exchange Fixing (NAFEX), where forex is formally exchanged, naira which opened at N427.30 shut at N431.00 to a dollar on Tuesday. This means a N3.87 or 0.90 percent degrading from N427.17 it traded in the past meeting on Monday. The naira varied to an intraday high of N414.00 and gone as far as a low of N444.00 prior to shutting at N431.00 per $1 on the second work day of the week, which was yesterday. Forex turnover at the market on Tuesday dropped by 35.40 percent with $58.03 million posted at the end of market against the $89.79 million kept in the past meeting on Monday. This is the most fragile rate the cash has exchanged at the NAFEX window this year. The new record is 0.2 percent more fragile than the N430.33...