{"id":170040,"date":"2025-07-17T18:34:32","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T17:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/cbn-to-cut-interest-by-25-basis-points-economist-rewane"},"modified":"2025-07-17T19:44:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T18:44:03","slug":"cbn-to-cut-interest-by-25-basis-points-economist-rewane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/cbn-to-cut-interest-by-25-basis-points-economist-rewane","title":{"rendered":"CBN to cut interest by 25 basis points \u2013 Economist Rewane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Popular economist and chief executive of Financial Derivatives Company, Bismark Rewane, has said that the Central Bank of Nigeria Monetary Policy Committee may cut the interest rate by 25 basis points in its next meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Rewane disclosed this in a Channels Television Business Morning interview on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>He explained his stance on global inflation increasing global inflation and decreasing Nigerian inflation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there will be a cut of 25 basis points. Why do I say that? It is because global inflation has increased and Nigeria\u2019s inflation is declining. Depending on what methodology is used. Even if the old methodology is used,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the Nigerian currency, the naira, is in good shape at N1,530 per dollar as of Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>His comments come as Nigerian inflation dropped to 22.22 percent, according to the National Bureau of Statistics data released on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that CBN fixed the 21st and 22nd for its MPC meeting to decide on Nigeria\u2019s interest rate, which stood at 27.50 percent as today(Thursday).<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Popular economist and chief executive of Financial Derivatives Company, Bismark Rewane, has said that the Central Bank of Nigeria Monetary Policy Committee may cut the interest rate by 25 basis points in its next meeting. Rewane disclosed this in a Channels Television Business Morning interview on Thursday. He explained his stance on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":170038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,15,29,28,2660],"tags":[503,254],"class_list":["post-170040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-to-homepage","tag-cbn","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>CBN to cut interest by 25 basis points \u2013 Economist Rewane - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Popular economist and chief executive of Financial Derivatives Company, Bismark Rewane, has said that the Central Bank o ...\" \/>\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.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/cbn-to-cut-interest-by-25-basis-points-economist-rewane\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"CBN to cut interest by 25 basis points \u2013 Economist Rewane\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Popular economist and chief executive of Financial Derivatives Company, Bismark Rewane, has said that the Central Bank o ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/cbn-to-cut-interest-by-25-basis-points-economist-rewane\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-07-17T17:34:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-17T18:44:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1752765343.87464.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/cbn-to-cut-interest-by-25-basis-points-economist-rewane#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/cbn-to-cut-interest-by-25-basis-points-economist-rewane\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"CBN to cut interest by 25 basis points \u2013 Economist Rewane\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-17T17:34:32+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-17T18:44:03+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/cbn-to-cut-interest-by-25-basis-points-economist-rewane\"},\"wordCount\":189,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/cbn-to-cut-interest-by-25-basis-points-economist-rewane#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1752765343.87464.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"CBN\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Economy\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"to-homepage\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/cbn-to-cut-interest-by-25-basis-points-economist-rewane#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/cbn-to-cut-interest-by-25-basis-points-economist-rewane\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/cbn-to-cut-interest-by-25-basis-points-economist-rewane\",\"name\":\"CBN to cut interest by 25 basis points \u2013 Economist Rewane - 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