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A Ghana News Agency (GNA) survey in the Techiman Municipality in the Brong-Ahafo region has revealed an increase in food prices, which has been attributed to the beginning of the new planting season, Christmas festivities and the recent…

The year-to-date Ghana cedi depreciation to the dollar now stands at 24.57 per cent, the Gold Coast Securities (GCS)-Cedi Index has shown. This means that the cedi since January 2008 had weakened to the dollar by that percentage. It…

Ask Douglas MacQuarrie about timing and he’ll point to his stock price. While all of the Juniors have suffered with the sub-prime mortgage meltdown and the subsequent liquidity crisis, PMI Gold was hit particularly hard. Focused on the…

St. Martin Co-operative Credit Union (CRU), recorded a net profit of GH¢ 51,663.16 this year as against GH¢24,648.34 declared last year. Total assets of the Union rose from GH¢1,054,263.79 to GH¢1,395,679.79 within the same period. Mr.…

The Ghana-Togo border at Aflao witnessed brisk business on Monday with much heavier vehicular and human traffic across the crowded frontier. With Christmas just three days away, such heavy human and vehicular activities across the frontier…

The New Juaben Municipal Teachers Savings Association has, as at June 30 this year, invested a total amount of GH¢ 338,305.64 in 12 companies listed on the Ghana Stock Exchange. The companies included Aluworks Ghana Limited, Benso Oil Palm…

A Sekondi District Magistrate's Court on Monday fined Stephen Cudjoe 38, GH¢220 on his own plea for stealing two grasscutters valued at GH¢100. In default, Cudjoe would serve three months imprisonment in hard labour. Prosecuting,…

The annual percentage change in the Producer Price Index (PPI), which is the percentage change for all industry, between November 2007 and November 2008, which measures inflation in prices of goods at production level, recorded 19.35% for…

Oil prices fell Tuesday in Asia, adding to a sharp drop overnight, as concern that energy demand is evaporating in the face of a severe global economic slowdown sent crude below $40 a barrel. Light, sweet crude for February delivery fell…

2008 has been an exceptionally tumultuous year for exchange rates. The American dollar soared, the Japanese yen went into orbit, the euro fell to earth, and the British pound crashed, leaving a giant crater. Emerging-market currencies were…