Monetary policy

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US Businesses Raise Concerns Over Trump Policies

Businesses in some parts of the country, while generally upbeat, are concerned about the uncertainty surrounding the...

Business

Banks Pay 11.9% But Charge 33.4%

Banks are paying an average of 11.9 per cent per annum as interest on deposits but charging their borrowers an average...

Business

Pension Funds Seen Boosting GSE Activities

Financial analysts have tipped the stock market to continue its strong recovery on the back of an expected increase in...

International

Federal Reserve May Raise US Rates ‘fairly Soon’

Federal Reserve officials have said they may need to raise interest rates "fairly soon" if the economy stays strong,...

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US Fed Officials Say They May Need To Raise Rates ‘fairly Soon’

Federal Reserve officials said their outlook for the economy and interest rates had not changed much since December...

Business

TUC Makes Budget Proposals

The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has welcomed the NPP government’s honouring an agreement on the 12.5% increase in...

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Access To Credit Will Remain A Challenge – Economist

Economist Courage Kinsley Martey assessed that access to credit in the economy will continue to be a challenge, for the...

Business

Central Bank Releases Data On APR and AI On Deposits

The Bank of Ghana has, today, released its latest data on Annual Percentage Rates (APR) of interest charged on loans...

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China’s Huge Debt Poses Big Headache For Central Bank

Chinese banks lent more money in January alone than the annual GDP of South Africa, as borrowers rushed to take...

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Banks Position Themselves For Recapitalization

Commercial banks across the country are confident of meeting the new minimum capital requirement yet to be set by the...

Business

Ghana’s Inflation To Decline

Inflation will continue to fall in Ghana in 2017, following several years of extraordinarily high price growth, Fitch...

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Private Sector Pushes For Optimal Inflation Target

Private sector businesses have strongly advocated an optimal inflation target to guide economic policies that support...

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Inflation Eases Further, Drops To 13.3% In January

Ghana’s inflation for the first month of  2017, January recorded 13.3 percent. The figure dropped by 2.8 percent...

Business

Negative Return On Oil Cash Investment

IT has emerged that the performance of the Ghana Petroleum Funds’ portfolios declined in the second of 2016. In an...

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Fed’s Yellen Says Fiscal Policy Adds ‘uncertainty’ To Outlook

Possible changes in fiscal policy by US President Donald Trump are among the factors adding "uncertainty" to the...

Business

Falling T-Bill Rates Won’t Reduce Cost of Credit

The current falling Treasury bill rates will not reflect a drop in the cost of credit in Ghana, Ecobank Research has...

International

Wall Street Stands With Two Fed-Hike Outlook For 2017

Wall Street's top banks expect just two rate hikes from the Federal Reserve this year and see only modest risk to the...

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Checking the Pulse of the Economy

If the economy worked like the more recent quartz watch which functions electronically, then predictions of future...

Business

Partner BoG To Grow Economy

Ken Ofori Atta to collaborate with the central bank to map up policies to increase revenue. Finance Minister Ken...