CBN uplifts FX Market with $308.5m

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has continued to sustain liquidity in the foreign exchange market, as it boosted the market on Friday with $308.5 million.
This move is expected to further ensure liquidity and stability in the FX market.
It will be recalled that the bank opened the week with a boost of $195m ahead of MPC decisions.
A total sum of $195 million was offered in three segments of the market.
In the wholesale Secondary Market Intervention Sales (SMIS) of the inter-bank Foreign Exchange market, it auctioned $100 million and also intervened in the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and invisible segments, with the sum of $50 million and $45 million respectively.
This brings the total intervention for the week to $503.5 million.
CBN Acting Director, Corporate Communications Department, Mr. Isaac Okorafor, who gave the figures in Abuja on Friday, announced that the latest intervention of the CBN in the retail segment was part of the regular interventions of the apex Bank, in line with its commitment to sustain liquidity to meet genuine requests in the market.
While warning against speculations in the market, Okorafor said the CBN had put necessary checks in place to guard against the activities of speculators. He stressed the determination of the bank to continue its forex intervention. He encouraged genuine users of foreign exchange to approach their banks, as the banks had enough forex to meet their demand.