Post MPC Meeting Report – Hawkish MPC Tightens the Asymmetric Corridor

  During the 292nd Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting conducted on the 24th and 25th of July 2023, the Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) maintained its hawkish streak, for the eighth (8th) consecutive time since May 2022. The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) decided to increase the Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) by 25bps to […]

Monetary Policy: MPC Springs a dovish surprise

MPC Springs a dovish surprise The CBN Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) voted to cut the key benchmark interest rate by 50bps to 13.5%, taking the Standing Lending Facility and standing deposit facility to 15.5% and 8.5% respectively. The decision was surprising in that ARM Research and most analysts surveyed by Bloomberg anticipated no change in […]