What if Nigeria's naira re-floats as the official-parallel gap reopens?
Dollar scarcity forces Nigeria into another naira adjustment, widening the FX gap and pressuring reserves until oil receipts or portfolio inflows return.
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What it would mean
If this plays out, it is a risk-off shock. Dollar scarcity forces Nigeria into another naira adjustment, widening the FX gap and pressuring reserves until oil receipts or portfolio inflows return. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — EM currencies ▼ · Credit spreads ▲ · Dollar/reserve confidence ▲ · Oil supply risk ▲ · Risk appetite ▼ — which propagate through our causal graph to the markets below.