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Nigeria Interest Rate Announcement (Mar.)

The Central Bank of Nigeria continued its hiking cycle today, raising rates by 200bp to 24.75%, providing further evidence that officials are fighting aggressively to tackle the inflation problem and restore its damaged credibility. We think that the CBN will deliver additional 100bp of hikes at each of the next two meetings.

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