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According to a recent (June 2024) report by Naija News, the parallel market exchange rate of the naira to the U.S. dollar is around ₦1483 per 1 USD, significantly higher than the official Central Bank of Nigeria rate. This disparity highlights underlying economic challenges and market pressures. [69] Rate of the Nigerian naira for US$1 (1994 ...
Subsequently, the government attempted to peg the currency: from December 1997 until February 2023, [12] the official rate was fixed at LL 1,507.50 = USD1.00 [4] In August 2019, due to the increasing supply of Lebanese pounds in the economy, pressure on the fixed exchange rate with the US dollar started, creating a parallel market rate.
Almost immediately after the Reserve Bank abolished the peg, the official rate against the US dollar declined to Z$2.80 on 22 March 2019, and Z$6.00 on 12 June 2019, while the parallel rate fluctuated between Z$7.00 and Z$13.00 by 3 July. [22] [35] [36] The Reserve Bank's annual inflation rate surpassed 100% in June 2019, and 500% in December ...
Here's what else happened today: The Fed won't cut rates at all in 2025 , Deutsche Bank says. The area of the stock market investors should avoid next year , according to Wells Fargo.
The official Zimbabwean dollar exchange rate had been frozen at Z$101,196 per U.S. dollar since early 2006, but as of 27 July 2006 the parallel (black market) rate has reached Z$550,000 per U.S. dollar. By comparison, 10 years earlier, the rate of exchange was only Z$9.13 per USD.
The Fed hiked the federal funds rate (overnight interest rates) to a two-decade high of 5.33% between Mar. 2022 and Aug. 2023, in order to tame an inflation surge that resulted from pandemic ...
The currency's official and parallel rates continued to plummet in the context in falling incomes from exports, the chaotic redistribution of land to inexperienced farmers, and Zimbabwe's involvement in the Second Congo War. By July 2006, the parallel market value of the Zimbabwean dollar fell to one millionth of a pound sterling (Z$1,000,000 ...
The CME FedWatch Tool, which measures market expectations for Fed fund rate changes, projects a 86.1% chance the Fed will cut rates by a quarter percentage point to a range of 4.25% to 4.50% at ...