US Trade Deficit Widens In April
The US trade gap widened in April for the second straight month as Americans bought more imported consumer goods, the Commerce Department reported Friday. Despite falling oil imports and crude...
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US Unemployment Rate Hits 16-Year Low In May
The US unemployment rate fell to a 16-year low in May but monthly job creation saw a sharp slowdown, the Labor Department reported Friday. The economy added just 138,000 net new jobs for the month,...
US Backsliding On Paris Deal A Gift For China
The US exit from the Paris climate pact is a gift to China's ambitions to become world leader on everything from trade to global warming, despite its own mixed record. Beijing appeared well aware of...
NEDCO Restores Power To Households In Asunafo South
The Northern Electricity Distribution Company (NEDCO), in the Brong Ahafo Region, has restored power to occupants of over 300 households at Asantekae, Asawinso and Adwumam communities in the Asunafo...
India’s Mobile Internet Use Increases Ninefold
Mobile internet usage in India has increased ninefold in a single year, after the launch of a new operator sparked a telecoms price war, according to a new report. Indians used nearly 1.3 billion...
Okada Riders Prepare To Boost Business In the Raining Season
Okada business have seen a rise in demand in recent times. Being an affordable alternative to trotro and taxis, the business is said to be quite lucrative according to riders. People on the move find...
UNIDO Commissions Ultra-Modern Soil & Fertilizer Testing Lab In Ghana
The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) with support from the Switzerland government through the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) has commissioned an ultra-modern...
All Music Producers In Ghana Are Not Thinking Business – Mel Kwesi Davis
Artiste manager and boss of Event Republic, Mel Kwesi Davis has stated unequivocally that not a single music producer in Ghana knows or thinks business. He asserts that music producers deal with...
Dorinda Martey Making A Case For ‘natural Hair Movement’
The apparent reemergence of the natural hair movement in Africa, particularly Ghana, has not only gotten many interested, but has actually convinced many more young Ghanaian women to take the...
Council of State Caught In Shameful Deal
The Council of State, has been caught in a possible conflict of interest situation as it tried meeting the Minority National Democratic Congress (NDC) Members in Parliament to beg for the withdrawal...
Investors Pick Tesla’s Promise Over GM’s Steady Profits
When General Motors CEO Mary Barra introduced the Chevrolet Bolt at the CES gadget show last year, she took a shot at Tesla. Buyers can be confident because Chevy has 3,000 U. S. dealers to service...
Treasury Chief ‘Confident’ Congress Will Raise US Debt Limit
U. S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Thursday he was confident that Congress would raise the federal debt limit "before there's an issue" with U.S. creditworthiness, and he pledged that...
Ofori-Asante Likely To Be Appointed As CEO of Petroleum Commission
President Nana Akufo-Addo is yet to appoint someone to take over as Chief Executive Officer of Petroleum Commission, but insider sources have tipped Mr. Philip Ofori-Asante to be next in line. Mr....
Reserving Retail Sector For Ghanaians Limits Us
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC), Yofi Grant, has stated strongly that the centre will no longer reserve the retail sector of the economy for Ghanaians...
Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire Meet On Cocoa Production
The technical committee of the Ghana-Cote D’Ivoire Joint Co-operation on Cocoa as begun a two-day meeting in Accra to discuss how to enhance farm level productivity, marketing and issues of...
World Bank Report Shows Quality Education Hampered By High Wage Bill
The World Bank Public Sector Expenditure Review (PER) has shown that the high wage bill in the education sector, which has left little for capital investment, has serious implications for the quality...
6,150 Farmers Join Planting For Food and Jobs Programme In Central Region
A Deputy Minister of Food and Agriculture, Mr George Oduro, has stated that the government has engaged about 6,150 farmers under its ‘Planting for food and jobs programme’ in the Central Region....
Businesses Want Stimulus Package Released By Midyear
Private sector businesses have impressed on the government to make its stimulus package for businesses, available by the end of June this year. Among the numerous interventions by the New Patriotic...
Goldman Sachs CEO Defends Paris Deal In First-Ever Tweet
Goldman Sachs, which has been a source of advisors to President Donald Trump, joined a chorus of big companies to criticize the US leader's decision Thursday to exit the Paris climate agreement....
$9m Amoured Cars Imported By Mahama 8 Days To Handing-Over, Stuck In Dubai
Former President John Mahama ordered the supply of 43 specialised vehicles worth more than $9m barely eight days to the handing over of power, documents sighted by Joy News has revealed. The document...