Asian Shares Advance, Dollar Supported By March Rate Hike Bets
Asian shares rose on Thursday as investors were encouraged by President Donald Trump's measured tone in his first speech to ...
Tag: Monetary policy
US Businesses Raise Concerns Over Trump Policies
Businesses in some parts of the country, while generally upbeat, are concerned about the uncertainty surrounding the impending policies of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, minutes ...
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 2016, when ...
TUC Makes Budget Proposals
The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has welcomed the NPP government’s honouring an agreement on the 12.5% increase in salaries for ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Ghana’s Inflation To Decline
Inflation will continue to fall in Ghana in 2017, following several years of extraordinarily high price growth, Fitch has predicted. ...
Private Sector Pushes For Optimal Inflation Target
Private sector businesses have strongly advocated an optimal inflation target to guide economic policies that support private sector growth. They ...
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 from the ...
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 ...
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 economic outlook, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Checking the Pulse of the Economy
If the economy worked like the more recent quartz watch which functions electronically, then predictions of future events of growth ...
Partner BoG To Grow Economy
Ken Ofori Atta to collaborate with the central bank to map up policies to increase revenue. Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta ...