The Nigerian Monetary Policy Committee’s decision to leave its key interest rate at 13% at today’s meeting was not a surprise, but Governor Godwin Emefiele’s comments at the post-meeting press conference seemed notably less hawkish. We expect that around 200bps of tightening will come in early 2016, but note that there is an increasing risk that these hikes will not materialise.
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