As the Monitory Policy Committee of the central bank meets today, expectations of a policy rate cut are high, as the IMF programme appears to have impelled a modicum of prudence in macroeconomic...
The Finance Minister, Mr Seth Terkper, expects the stability in the fiscal side of the economy to provide comfort to the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) and possibly prompt...
The business community, backed by some economists have intensified renewed calls for the central back to strongly consider cutting its policy rate to induce growth following the decline in inflation...
Inflation for the month of October 2016 has seen a sharp decline from the 17.2% recorded in September to 15.8%. The rate decreased by 1.4% from the 17.2% in September 2016. The monthly change rate...
The figure represents a 1.4 percent reduction from the 17.2 percent recorded in September this year. This is higher compared to the monthly change rate for September which was 0.2 percent. According...
Ever heard of the currency Pula? Well it’s one of the best performing and valuable currencies in Africa from the SADC of the south of Africa. What makes an economy robust that is stable and...
Inflation could hit 4% in the second half of 2017 - with price increases set to damage the economy through weakened consumer spending power. The prediction was made by the National Institute of...
The theoretical basis for any effective employment program rest on the idea of a perfect integration between an economy’s competitive drivers, the skill requirement to sustain those drivers and how...
Cost of borrowing is expected to go up in the coming months as some commercial banks are planning to adjust their lending rates upwards by about three per cent, Business Finder has leant. The banks,...
The left is undertaking an amazing back door plan to dramatically increase its influence over the Fed’s interest-rate-setting Open Market Committee. The key activist group, a division of the Center...
Who will conjure the American Dream back for us? Politics is part prestidigitation, part reality. A great magician distracts her audience’s attention while producing the payoff. Abracadabra! Want...
Attempts by the central bank to hem in inflation continue to yield less than satisfactory results, as a 0.3percent rise in September appears to confirm the Statistical Service’s suspicion that...
Barely two months after parliament passed the Bank of Ghana (BoG) Amendment Bill, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has punched holes into the Act and is demanding fresh amendments to introduce a...
Ghana’s headline inflation is likely to slow further downwards raising prospects of a series of interest rate cuts as the government moves to spur growth. The country’s headline inflation rose to...
Barely five months after a currency swap deal between Nigeria and China was enmeshed in controversy, the country’s import profile from the Far-East Asian nation has remained high and intermediated...
Efforts by Managers of Ghana’s economy to arrest inflation in the past four years have proved futile as prices of goods and services continue to soar in the country. The situation has impacted...
The Bank of Japan said Wednesday that it's introducing a new long-term interest rate target of around zero. The bank has already gone to extreme lengths in its attempts to stimulate the country's...
The stability of the Ghana cedi against the major foreign currencies, particularly the United States dollar, is expected to be sustained into the future in what is expected to bring a big relief to...
The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the central bank has said it is undisturbed by perceived inflationary pressures which the Statistical Service said could result from traders hiking prices ahead...
The governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) Dr. Abdul Nashir Issahaku has described as worrying the country’s current average lending rate which is hovering around 33 percent. According to the Dr....
