Forex: CBN boosts Retail SMIS with $321.4m

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has again intervened in the Retail Secondary Market Intervention Sales (SMIS) to the tune of $321.4 million for requests in the agricultural, airlines, petroleum products and raw materials and machinery sectors.
Acting Director, Corporate Communications at the CBN, Isaac Okorafor, while confirming the figures, noted that the continued intervention were in line with the assurances made by the Governor, Godwin Emefiele, to sustain market liquidity in order to boost production and trade and maintain stability in the forex market.
Speaking further, Okorafor assured that the CBN remained very committed to ensuring that all the sectors continue to enjoy access to the foreign exchange required for the business concerns.
It will be recalled that the CBN in its last SMIS, earlier in February 2018, injected the sum of $325.64 million in the inter-bank Foreign Exchange Market.
Meanwhile, the naira exchanged at N361/$1 in the BDC segment of the market on Friday, February 23, 2018.

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