Nigerian naira on
Monday crumbled to 500 per dollar at the parallel market sending significant
shock to businesses as analysts predicted a sharp depreciation on the currency.
The currency plunged
further against the United States dollar to an all time low record of 500 on
Monday morning, down from 498 it closed on Friday.
The currency had
continued to fall since the beginning of the year as experts see the currency
hitting over 500 to the dollar this year.
It is also trading 615
and 525 to the pound and euro respectively at the back market segment.
At the highly pegged
official market, the currency remain unchanged at 305 to a dollar.
In a bulletin
containing the FDC’s economic outlook for 2017 released in January, Chief
Executive Officer of the Financial Derivatives Company Limited, Mr. Bismarck
Rewane had predicted that the naira would trade at N350/dollar at the Interbank
Foreign Exchange Market and depreciate to N520/$ at the parallel market

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