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Nigeria: CBN slashes rates and its own credibility

The Central Bank of Nigeria cut its key policy rate in a surprise move today, the latest signal that Governor Emefiele sees slow growth, rather than the slow-burning balance of payments crisis, as Nigeria’s key economic challenge. The Bank’s increasingly unorthodox policy-making is likely to worry already-skittish foreign investors and could precipitate even more severe strains in the balance of payments.

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