Naira Falls Massively At Black Market Today, See New Exchange Rate

Trading at the official NAFEX window

The dollar to naira exchange rate at the Investors and Exporters window closed at N416.67/$1 on Monday, 21st February 2022, representing a 0.02% gain compared to N416.75/$1 recorded in the previous trading session.

• It is worth noting that this is the first upward movement for the local currency in the past four trading sessions at the official FX market.
• The opening indicative rate closed at N415.9/$11 on Monday. This represents a 5 kobo depreciation compared to the N415.85/$1 recorded on Friday, 18th February 2022.
• An exchange rate of N444/$1 was the highest rate recorded during intra-day trading before it settled at N416.67/$1, while it sold for as low as N410/$1 during intra-day trading,
• Meanwhile, forex turnover at the official window surged by 120.69% to $141.31 million on Monday, 21st February 2022.
• According to data tracked by Nairametrics from FMDQ, forex turnover at the I&E window increased to $141.31 million on Monday from $64.03 million recorded on Friday18th February 2022. 

Crypto market

The crypto market resumed trading activities on Tuesday on the negative as the industry market capitalization sipped 1.42% to stand at $1.626 trillion in the earlier hours of Tuesday, 22nd February 2022, following a 1.36% decline recorded in the previous trading session.

In the same vein, bitcoin recorded a 1.19% decline as of 6:14 am on Tuesday to trade at $36,610. The flagship crypto-asset had witnessed a price decline of 1.87% in the previous trading session. Meanwhile, despite the marginal appreciation recorded in the price of Ethereum on Monday, it started the day on Tuesday with a 2.25% decline to trade at $2,511.41.

Meanwhile, the price of Solana as of press time had depreciated by 1.56% to trade at $81.6975, Terra recorded a decline of 1.95% to trade at $49.1482538, while Uniswap dipped 2.23% to trade at $8.34.