NIGERIA'S FOREIGN RESERVE DOWN 6 DAYS TO JULY 13. --- CBN

Nigeria's foreign reserve has been declining since the better part of this month and indeed, went down daily in the last six working days to July 13, 2018.

According to figures obtained from the website of the Central Bank of Nigeria, the reserve stood at $47.621bn by last Friday July 13, 2018.

This represented 0.37% or $177m drop on the $47.798bn it clocked on July 2, to start the month.

It had ended June 29 at $47.782bn after recovering from $47.775bn the previous day.

However, since July the reserve position has improved only in 3 days: July 2, 4 and 5 2015.

In particular, it has been sliding daily since July 6. It dropped from July 5's $47.798bn to $47.792bn on the 6th  and stayed downwards through July 9, 10, 11, 12 and finally the 13th.

The month of June trend was almost a reverse of this especially mid month when there was consistent daily increase up to July 26's $47.790bn.

It has been quite an an ongoing struggle to cross the $47bn range into $48bn for months now and the nearest it got to this mark since July was the 5th's $47.7988bn.

Meanwhile, the portion of the reserve that is untouchable rose to 1.55% from July 10 and this remains a high point of sorts.

This portion hit a high of $738.78m last Thursday July 12 as the peak of daily rise since June 26, 2018. At that date it had dropped to $731.82m from $732.337m the previous day.

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