CBN defends Naira with $7.6b in 5 months; currency trades at N700 to $
In the last five months, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) injected $7.6 billion into the economy to stabilise the value of the naira. CBN’s banking regulator’s monthly economic reports on foreign exchange market developments state that the regulator intervened in the markets with $1.65 billion in January, $1.39 billion in February and $1.82 billion in March, while the injection …