{"id":603012,"date":"2019-03-28T14:39:08","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T14:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"<br><p>The headquarters of the Nigerian central bank in Abuja, Nigeria.<\/p><div>\n<!-- \/1002554\/MJO_Announcement_250X340 -->\n<!-- <div id='div-gpt-ad-1550929497923-0' style='float:right;z-index: 996;height:340px; width:250px;'>\n\n<\/div> -->\n<!-- 27th April "},"modified":"2019-03-28T14:39:08","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T14:39:08","slug":"nigeria-unexpectedly-cuts-key-rate-for-first-time-since-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/03\/28\/nigeria-unexpectedly-cuts-key-rate-for-first-time-since-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria unexpectedly cuts key rate for first time since 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>The headquarters of the Nigerian central bank in Abuja, Nigeria.<\/p>\n<div>\n<!-- \/1002554\/MJO_Announcement_250X340 --><br \/>\n<!-- \n\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1550929497923-0' style='float:right;z-index: 996;height:340px; width:250px;'>\n\n<\/div>\n\n --><br \/>\n<!-- 27th April (1month) - UHAS --><\/p>\n<div style=\"float:right;z-index: 996;height:340px; width:250px;\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/03\/glauc-new.jpg\" data-pagespeed-url-hash=\"1830378809\" onload=\"pagespeed.CriticalImages.checkImageForCriticality(this);\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s central bank unexpectedly reduced its key interest rate for the first time in more than three years to help boost the economy.<\/p>\n<p>The Monetary Policy Committee voted to cut the rate to 13.5 percent from 14 percent, Governor Godwin Emefiele told reporters Tuesday in the capital, Abuja. 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Nigeria\u2019s central bank unexpectedly reduced its key interest rate for the first time in more than three years to help boost the economy. The Monetary Policy Committee voted to cut the rate to 13.5 percent from 14 percent, Governor Godwin Emefiele told reporters Tuesday in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":603013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-603012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigeria unexpectedly cuts key rate for first time since 2015 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/03\/28\/nigeria-unexpectedly-cuts-key-rate-for-first-time-since-2015\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Nigeria unexpectedly cuts key rate for first time since 2015 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The headquarters of the Nigerian central bank in Abuja, Nigeria. 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