Traders Aren't Yet Calling an End to Nigeria's Naira Problem

  • Central bank governor, finance minister are bullish on naira
  • Turn in oil and emerging-market bullishness are risks: Ashmore

A currency dealer counts bundles of naira banknotes

Photographer: Tom Saater/Bloomberg
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Nigerian officials are increasingly confident the naira’s troubles are over for good. Some investors disagree.

Portfolio inflows have risen in the past three months with crude prices increasing above $60 a barrel and money managers taking heart from a new foreign-exchange trading window, in which the naira has converged with the black-market rate.