A stock exchange analyst, Winslow Sackeyfio, has allayed fears Ghana’s December 7 general elections will have a negative impact on the performance of stocks on the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE). The...
Some banks have debunked claims of a possible slowdown in deposits from customers due to the upcoming general elections. According to them, although they are threatened by the upcoming elections as...
In an election year, many expected Ghana’s economy to completely wither; past events have shown that the power and extravagance of the incumbent tend to impose difficulties on the economy in an...
Ghana's economy is like a pendulum. It swings growth on one turn and swings decline on another turn. For instance, the economy grew by a record 14% in 2011. Inflation was kept at single digit for a...
The country’s financial sector remains relatively weak and elementary after more than a century of financial services provision, Kweku Bedu-Addo, Chief Executive Officer of the Standard Chartered...
It was a moment of grief, sadness and tears when the elder sister of the late Ms Eva Lokko, Mrs Marian Hornsby Odoi, stepped out to pick an award on her sister’s behalf for her achievement. The...
Private legal practitioner Ace Ankomah has eulogised former Director General of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) as one of the best public official Ghana has ever had. He said the principles...
Former Director General of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) Madam Eva Lokko has died. Madam Eva Lokko passed away on Thursday, October 6, 3news.com has gathered. Until her death, Madam Eva...
A $74 million project focusing on creating employment opportunities for young people in the cocoa sector has been launched. The five-year project is targeting more than 200,000...
Presidential nominee for the Convention People’s Party, Ivor Greenstreet, says the new cocoa producer price announced by the government is inadequate, and falls short of the investment of the cocoa...
Cocobod has encouraged the youth to venture into cocoa growing to sustain the industry which has over the years kept the national economy going. Dr. Stephen Kwabena Opuni, the Chief Executive Officer...
The Managing Director of Capital Bank, Reverend Fitzgerald Odonkor, has urged parents to ensure that they invest some of their finances in their children. According to him, there would always be...
More than 80,000 young people are to benefit from a training programme to prepare them to venture into cocoa cultivation. Dubbed: "Ma so", which literally means ‘lift it’, the five-year programme...
Government has increased the producer price of cocoa from 6,800 cedis per tonne to 7,600 cedis per tonne for the 2016/17 cocoa season. This means every 64kg bag of cocoa beans will attract 475 cedis...
Government has reviewed upwards the producer price for cocoa at a ceremony to commemorate this year's national cocoa day in Tepa in the Ashanti Region. The new price will go for GHS 475.00 per bag,...
One million, four hundred and thirteen thousand, three hundred and thirty three (1,413,333) hectares of cocoa farms in the country have benefited from the free fertilizers under Ghana Cocoa Board’s...
China-Ghana trade volume hit a historic high of US$6.6 billion in 2015, increasing by 18.2 per cent on year-on-year basis. China’s direct financial investment in Ghana reached US$174 million, the...
For the first time in Sub-Sahara Africa, Treasury bill can be bought through Mobile Money. This has been made available through a collaboration between Ecobank Capital Advisors Ltd., a wholly owned...
The yield on the Government of Ghana 182-day treasury rate edged up by 0.01 per cent to settle at 24.70 per cent at the auction in the week ending September 23. However, the rest of the yields on the...
HFC bank has announced plans to increase its investment in the cocoa sector from GH¢90 million to GH¢198.1 million in order to further augment the availability of funds to players in the sector....
