{"id":380086,"date":"2025-12-31T16:43:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T16:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/380086\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T16:43:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T16:43:13","slug":"naira-records-depreciation-against-us-dollar-ahead-of-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/380086\/","title":{"rendered":"Naira records depreciation against US dollar ahead of new year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Naira depreciated against the United States dollar at the official foreign exchange market on Tuesday ahead of the new year.<\/p>\n<p>The Central Bank of Nigeria\u2019s data showed that the naira weakened on Tuesday to N1,445.68 per dollar, down from N1,442.51 traded on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>This means that the Naira dipped by N3.17 against the dollar on a day-to-day basis.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST reports that the last time the naira dropped against the dollar at the official foreign exchange was on December 18, when it stood at N1,457.84 per dollar.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile at the black market, the Naira remained at N1,475 per dollar on Tuesday, the same exchange rate recorded the previous day.<\/p>\n<p>The mixed sentiment in the country\u2019s foreign exchange market comes despite the continued rise in external reserves, which rose to $45.45 billion as of December 29, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Naira depreciated against the United States dollar at the official foreign exchange market on Tuesday ahead of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,926,101,19964],"class_list":{"0":"post-380086","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-dollar","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-naira"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}