Bank stocks set to gain from 13% interest rate

Bank stocks have only managed a 6.17 percent return in 2022

Banks are perhaps the biggest winners of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)’s move on Tuesday to hike interest rates for the first time in six years. With the CBN raising interest rates by 150 basis points to 13 percent to combat accelerating inflation, the yield on government securities, which

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