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CBN Retains Benchmark Interest Rate at 27.5% after MPC Meeting

Ugo Onwuaso20 Feb 20250 Comments
CBN Retains Benchmark Interest Rate at 27.5% after MPC Meeting
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Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has retained the Monetary Policy Rate, MPR, as its benchmark interest rate at 27.5%.Nigerian home decor ideas. Governor of CBN, Olayemi Cardoso, disclosed this at the…

Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has retained the Monetary Policy Rate, MPR, as its benchmark interest rate at 27.5%.Nigerian home decor ideas.

Governor of CBN, Olayemi Cardoso, disclosed this at the end of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting of the apex bank.

He said: “The committee was unanimous in its decision to hold all parameters and thus decided as follows: retain the MPR at 27.50%, retain the asymmetric corridor around the MPR at plus 500 to minus 100 basis points.

"Retain the cash reserve ratio of deposit money banks at 50% and merchant banks at 16% and retain the liquidity ratio at 30%.”

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