Nigeria’s central bank extended its longest phase of monetary tightening to tame inflation, disregarding a call by President Bola Tinubu for borrowing costs to be lowered.
The monetary policy committee raised the benchmark rate by 25 basis points to a record 18.75%. The median of 17 economists surveyed by Bloomberg expected a 50 basis-point increase.
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