Nigeria's central bank said on Wednesday it would begin "purely" market-driven foreign currency trading next week, abandoning its 16-month peg and setting the stage for the naira to fall sharply.
Nigeria's central bank previously pegged the naira at 197 to the U.S. dollar but the currency trades at
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