finance

International

Fairfax Financial To Buy Allied World For $4.9 Billion In Cash and Stock

Toronto-based insurance group Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd (FFH. TO) has agreed to buy Swiss insurer Allied World...

Opinion

Why Dr Bawumiah Could Keep NDC In Opposition For Sixteen Years (II)

Once upon a time, human beings lived together without rules or laws. In fact, human beings neither had government nor...

Business

Access Bank IPO Makes Cut To Successfully List On GSE

Access bank will officially list on the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) after successfully raising the minimum subscription...

International

Greece Approves Christmas Bonus As France Challenges German Veto

Greece defied its creditors and approved plans on Thursday to give its battered pensioners a one-off Christmas bonus...

Opinion

Access To Funding, Not the Only Reason Why Small Businesses Fail

In Africa, we say wisdom is wealth. This holds so true to the notion that very often small businesses don't need money,...

International

Foreign Banks In Britain Pay Fraction of Tax Rate

Some of the biggest foreign investment and commercial banks operating in Britain paid an average tax rate of just 6...

Politics

When Incumbency Becomes A Disadvantage

The 2016 general elections was one which defied all odds. The power of incumbency which usually places incumbents ahead...

Top Stories

We’ll Continue To Recruit, Award Contracts

The First Vice Chair of the outgoing National Democratic Congress (NDC), Madam Anita Disoso has slammed the New...

Top Stories

We’ll Focus On Economic Management, Not Infrastructure

play videoThe new NPP government takes office in 2017 and will be expected to deliver on several promises made The...

Opinion

Akufo-Addo– Bawumia Duo; Ghana’s Hope Into The Future

The New Patriotic Party (NPP), for three consecutive times, has presented one ticket in the personalities of Nana Addo...

International

US Raises Key Interest Rate By 0.25%

The US Federal Reserve has raised its benchmark interest rate by 0.25%, only the second increase in a decade. The...

International

French Prosecutor Calls For IMF’s Lagarde To Be Acquitted

The chief prosecutor in the negligence trial of IMF chief Christine Lagarde in Paris called for her acquittal on...

Business

Abolish 5% VAT On Real Estate Charges – GREDA To Nana Addo

Real Estate Developers are admonishing the President elect, Nana Akufo Addo to “Walk the Talk” when he is sworn in...

Opinion

Access To Funding, Contrary To Popular Belief Is Not The Only Reason Why Small Businesses Fail

In Africa, we say wisdom is wealth. This holds so true to the notion that very often small businesses don’t need...

Top Stories

Abolish 5% VAT On Real Estate Charges- GREDA To Nana Addo

Real Estate Developers are admonishing the President elect, Nana Akufo Addo to “Walk the Talk” when he is sworn in...

Top Stories

Osafo Marfo Raises Alarm Over Late Gov’t Recruitment

Head of the Nana Akufo-Addo transition team Yaw Osafo Marfo has raised concerns over some late recruitment into the...

Top Stories

Stock Market To End 2016 With Negative Growth – GSE MD

Current developments on the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) show the local bourse will record poor performance for the...

Business

Adb Begins Trading On GSE

The Agricultural Development Bank (ADB) yesterday begin trading on the Ghana Stock Exchange after having successfully...

Business

Broll Ghana Wins International Awards

Broll Ghana Limited, a CBRE affiliate and Ghana’s premier formalised property related services company, has been...