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MPC Meeting: Policy Parameters Remain Unchanged

Cordros Capital says in line with its expectation, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) – faced with choice of hiking or leaving policy parameters unchanged – elected to maintain status quo by keeping all monetary policy metrics at current levels.

As with the last meeting in July, three members of the Committee voted for a rate hike, while 7 members voted in favour of a hold. Pertinently, three of the members that leaned in favour of a hold, also voted for 150bps hike in CRR, thereby signalling a firmer hawkish stance.

For us, it is important to reiterate that the (1) elevated maturity profile over the rest of the year, (2) liquidity implication of election-related spending, (3) flood-induced pressure on domestic food prices, (4) tighter domestic food supply amidst lingering security issues in food producing areas, and (5) higher FAAC disbursements, driven by rising oil proceeds, portend upside risk to inflation.

However, on the currency, the MPC’s expectation that the foreign reserve would be supported by strong oil prices (above budget benchmark) and improved domestic production towards the end of the year, suggests that the CBN is unlikely to change its policy in that space soon.

Against the backdrop of the above, and with a more conservative growth outlook, we see the MPC keeping the key rate on hold in the near term.   That said, we note that a rate hike is not completely out of sight, with (1) indeed increasing member of the Committee striking a hawkish tone, (2) a low base 2018 headline inflation likely to result in higher y/y headline inflation over H1-2019, and (3) the possible hike of PMS and electricity prices after the elections next year pressuring prices.

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