Crude’s retreat shouldn’t sway Nigeria’s more underlying fundamentals
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 16:47 PM EDT
While crude’s recent decline saw a concurrent slump in Nigeria’s 2021, $500mm sole Eurobond issue given that the state relies on crude exports for roughly 95 percent of foreign-currency earnings (vital in order to keep the naira within a 3% band of USD/NGN150 per the central bank’s unstated mandate), energy strategists with Barclays remained bullish [...]