Time to invest in Ghana Treasury Bills. Contact your broker to get a Treasury bill application form. The application form requires information about the Treasury bill you want to purchase, like the issue number, the maturity period you want, and the face value amount you want to receive upon maturity. It also requires information about […]
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Junk status for Africa’s two biggest economies will hit overall growth
According to Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors’ (RICS) South Africa country manager TC Chetty, the recent credit rating downgrades by global ratings agencies will negatively affect Africa’s two biggest economies – South Africa and Nigeria, and hit Africa’s overall economic growth. TC Chetty, South Africa country manager for the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). […]
Corruption: Kagina battling bravely, but how sustainable are her heroics?
State structures in African countries are often inhabited by officials who rather line their pockets and please those above them than render a service to the public. In the second and last part of an investigation carried out in Uganda, Ghana and Nigeria, journalists ANAS AREMEYAW ANAS, THEOPHILUS ABBAH and BENON HERBERT OLUKA highlight how […]
Ghana: Despite poor performing banking stocks in 2015, Analysts remain optimistic for 2016
Stock market analysts are projecting that banking stocks on the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) will perform better next year (2016) than they did this year (2015). All the banking stocks on the stock exchange with the exception of the Trust bank of Gambia recorded declines in their share prices this year as compared to 2014. […]
Austerity advice comes back to Ghana
A policy think tank has called for a law to regulate excessive government borrowing, as Ghana’s public debt stock rose from 48.03 per cent in 2012 to 60.8 per cent in September 2014. The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) has warned that if a law is not passed to control undue government borrowing, the West […]
“Radical” rethink of development practices needed to reach poorest
IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde in Kigali, Rwanda As a UN working group gathers in New York to discuss recommendations for a post-2015 development agenda, mounting evidence suggests that the legacy left by the last set of objectives – the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – is a mixed one. Released on 2 February, a report […]
Rand Merchant Bank Extends West African Operation To Ghana
VENTURES AFRICA – Rand Merchant Bank (RMB), a division of First Rand Bank Limited in South Africa, will by June this year expand its presence in West Africa by opening a division in Ghana, the region’s second largest economy. RMB’s Head of Trade Finance, Minos Gerakaris, disclosed this in an interview on the sidelines of […]
Ghana’s manufacturing sector registers negative growth
Photo©Reuters Persistent erratic power supply led to Ghana’s manufacturing sector growth dipping to an unprecedented negative 8% in the fourth quarter of 2014, eroding confidence in the business community, Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) has said. "The manufacturing sector continues to shrink and Ghana risks losing its industrial base if government policies do not quickly […]
