• Thursday, April 25, 2024
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FX market opens new month with N1.00k gain over dollar

Naira

The foreign exchange market opened on Monday morning with an indicative rate of N386.25k per dollar at the Investors and Exporters (I&E) forex window.

This represents N1.00k gain for Naira when compared with N387.25k it opened with last week Friday at the I&E window, data from FMDQ revealed.

Foreign exchange daily turnover rose by 592.2 percent to $156.78 million on Friday from $22.65 million on Thursday.

Dollar is trading at N440 on the black market, indicating a N5 depreciation from N435 traded at the weekend. Against the rate exchanged on Friday last week, Naira gained N5 as the dollar was sold at N445.