Nigeria’s exchange rates unify amid managed float regime
Nigeria’s journey to a managed float system, conceived to merge its numerous exchange rates, gathered pace on Tuesday after the newly integrated official rate and the parallel market rate met at parity.
The development signals that a regime enabling market forces to largely set the price of the naira is in the offing.
The government had controlled the spot rate for years until last week, keeping it artificially strong and widening the gulf between it and the black-market rate to almost 60 per cent, a put-off for…