Today’s decision by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to lower the benchmark rate, from 12.50% to 11.50%, shows that policymakers have put aside their concerns about inflation and are increasingly spooked by the weakness of the economy. We think that the easing cycle has further to go and have pencilled in an additional 100bp rate cut in early-2021.
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