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    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 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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