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Nigeria GDP (Q1)

Nigerian GDP growth slowed to 2.0% y/y in Q1, strengthening our view that the economy will perform worse than most expect over the course of 2019. We think that today’s weak result will encourage policymakers to cut their key interest rate at their meeting later this week.

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