Standard Chartered Bank’s Wealth Management Advisory Group has released its Outlook 2017 publication, highlighting the key market scenarios and offering investors a map of key investment themes to navigate uncharted waters in 2017.
Give…
The rapid improvement in the quality of internet service plus the availability of online real-time payment platforms has led to the growth in online shops around the country. Multichoice Ghana today announced the opening of a Webshop for a…
H&H Co. Ltd., producers of JacknJill biscuits, have announced a new social media campaign #WELOVEJACKnJILL via their Facebook page.
This new campaign entreats consumers to take selfies of themselves enjoying the milky wafer, tagging the…
October's flash crash in sterling was caused by several factors - including the time of day - according to a report by the international banking body, the Bank for International Settlements.
In the early hours of 7 October, the pound fe…
The European Union and the United States agreed on Friday to reduce legal and capital barriers to boost the $3 billion transatlantic insurance and reinsurance market.
The accord has been under negotiation for more than a year and follow…
The Stanbic Bank Global Markets Unit has presented GHC20,000.00 and other items to the Hope Setters Autism Centre at Tema as part of the Unit’s Corporate Social Responsibility activities.
The items presented to the Centre included antis…
The Chartered Institute of Bankers says it will collaborate with the Bank of Ghana (BoG) to support and strengthen the performance of players in the non-bank financial sector.
The collaboration will be in the form of providing training …
China's massive export engine sputtered for the second year in a row in 2016, with shipments falling in the face of persistently weak global demand and officials voicing fears of a trade war with the United States that is clouding the outl…
Samsung chief Lee Jae-yong has been questioned at the prosecutor's office in Seoul as a suspect in South Korea's biggest political corruption scandal.
The firm is accused of giving donations to several non-profit foundations operated by…
Polished cotton, lace and Woodin brands are enjoying massive patronage over fabrics in the textile market. A survey conducted by the Ghana News Agency (GNA) on Wednesday revealed that sellers of the products were enjoying massive patronag…
Smallholder farmers have prevailed on the government to live up to its promise to increase subsidies on retail prices of fertilisers, seeds and other agrochemicals.
Subsequently, they proposed that subsidy, particularly on the fertilise…
SGS, the world's leading inspection, verification, testing and Certification Company awarded Total Petroleum Ghana Ltd. with the ISO 9001:2015 certification on Friday, December 23, 2016. After a successful transition audit by SGS in the a…
Banks have started investing the savings of customers on their mobile money (MOMO) platforms in 91-day Treasury bills in line with a new directive from the Bank of Ghana (BoG).
The T-bills are the only investment instruments that banks…
The BEIGE Group (TBG), a financial services provider, has acquired Universal Pensions Master Trust (UPMT), a licensed corporate trustee.
This brings to two the number of corporate trustees that have been acquired by The BEIGE Group …
One hundred and seventy-seven female cocoa farmer groups have received mechanised farming inputs valued at GH¢2,336,544 to empower them to improve on their yields.
The groups were sampled from 177 cocoa-growing communities in six distr…
Poultry farmers across the country recorded their highest sales during the Christmas and New Year festivities, two years after the outbreak of the Avian influenza (bird flu).
They made more than 50 per cent sale on total poultry product…
The 13th Conference of Parties (COP-13) to the United Nations (UN) Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) was held recently in Cancun, Mexico. It also featured two sub-conferences aimed at protecting the world’s natural habitat and maximising it…
Nearly 1.1 million Somalis are internally displaced
Launch of the 2017 Humanitarian Response Plan for Somalia:
What: Launch of the 2017 Humanitarian Response Plan for Somalia
Who: Peter de Clercq, Humanitarian Coordinator for Somali…
The first phase will focus on horticulture, poultry farming, goat milk and non-timber forest products; the second phase could include fishing and new income generating crops or activities
A new partnership between the United Nations rur…
The Programmes Coordinator of the Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG), Mrs Victoria Adongo, has urged the current Parliament not to rush into passing the Plant Breeders Bill.
She said there should be a broader consultation on th…
The former Minister for Trade and Industry, Mr Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, has recommended administrative punishment for officials of state institutions who defy directives to procure locally made products to actualise the Made-in-Ghana campaign.
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Six women’s groups in the Kassena-Nankana West District in the Upper East Region who are into the processing of baobab, shea nut, moringa and Sesame have been supported with motor tricycles to help boost their business activities.
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The government needs at least one experienced economist as part of the team of ministers at the Finance Ministry to provide a fitting blend for a better management of the national economy, the Head of Economics Department of the University…
Germany's economy stepped up its pace of growth in 2016, thanks to higher household and government spending.
Estimated figures from its Federal Statistical Office said gross domestic product was 1.9% higher last year than in 2015.
Th…
The three major U.S. stock indexes closed lower on Thursday as investors waited for fourth-quarter corporate earnings and details of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's economic policy eight days ahead of his inauguration.
While stocks …
Volkswagen has agreed a draft $4.3bn (£3.5bn) settlement with US authorities over the emissions-rigging scandal.
The German car maker also said it would plead guilty to breaking certain US laws.
VW said it was in advanced discussions…
The Ghana Union Traders’ Association (GUTA), has called on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s government to restore the three per cent flat Value Added Tax (VAT) rate which was increased to 17.5 per cent by the past administration.
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The year-on-year inflation rate for December 2016 fell slightly to 15.4 per cent compared with the 15.5 per cent recorded in November 2016. The monthly change rate in December 2016 was 0.9 per cent while that of November 2016 was 0.8 per c…
The Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) Financial Stock Index sprout up by 0.7 per cent to close trading at 1,575.5 points whilst the benchmark GSE-Composite Index rose by 0.5 per cent to close at 1,707.3 points.
At the close of trading, activit…
The Institute of Financial and Economic Journalists (IFEJ), says five corporate institutions have donated GH? 30,000.00 towards the organisation of the 2016 Edition of the IFEJ-Flamingo Awards.
A statement signed by Mr Lloyd Evans, Pres…
Prosecutors in the US have accused three former currency traders at major banks of trying to rig foreign exchange (forex) rates in the banking industry.
The three are Richard Usher, Rohan Ramchandani and Chris Ashton,
They worked at,…
An electronics dealer at Osu in Accra, Mr. Francis Mensah, drove home a Chevrolet saloon car at stake in the just-ended West Hills Mall Festive Sparkle Promotion when his shopping coupon was picked as the winner of the grand prize.
La…
There will be only a moderate pick up in global economic growth during 2017, the World Bank has predicted.
Its Global Economic Prospects report is forecasting 2.7% growth compared with the 2.3% seen last year.
That slight strengtheni…
Acrylic wool hair products, which were introduced recently onto the Ghanaian market, are gaining preference over existing hair braiding materials because of their affordability and good quality, hairdressers at Tema Station in Accra, have …
Mauritius is co-operating with Ghana to develop the economy in the areas of technology, sugar production and poultry and its by-products. The cooperation is also to strengthen bilateral ties that existed between the two countries.
Mr V…
The transaction which closed on 28 December 2016 marks the most sizable open-market hotel transaction in Sub-Saharan Africa to date
QG Africa Hotel LP acquires 100% of exceptional Mövenpick Ambassador Hotel in Central Business Distr…
The Ghana Education Service has expressed appreciation to Vodafone Ghana Foundation and British Council for its annual mentorship camp programme aimed at encouraging young girls nationwide to pursue their career goals to the very top.
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Inesfly Africa, an insecticide manufacturing company, has inaugurated a showroom in Accra as part of its mission to end malaria and other vector-borne diseases in Ghana and across other countries on the African continent.
In an interac…
The Bank of Ghana (BOG) has inaugurated a Payments Systems Council (PSC) under its Payments Systems Department to help drive the development of efficient and safe electronic payment systems in Ghana’s financial sector. The nine-member coun…
The Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) continued positive 2017 trading with the transactions in 18 equities with two price changes to begin week two of the year.As a result the benchmark GSE-Composite Index dropped marginally by 0.002 per cent to …
The Ghana Agricultural and Rural Development Journalists Association (GARDJA) has called on government to increase funding to the agriculture sector. “For far too long, successive governments have only paid lip-service to the agriculture s…
Global economic growth is forecast to accelerate moderately to 2.7 per cent in 2017 after a post-crisis low last year as obstacles to activity recede among emerging markets and developing economy commodity exporters.
Domestic demand wou…
Mr Charles Arkuh, the Vice President of Groupe Ideal, has called on the financial sector to take strategic decisions in order to sustain the industry as the advent of the mobile money transactions is transforming the sector.
“But it wil…
The viability of Golden Exotics Ghana Limited, one of the country's largest producers and exporters of pineapples and bananas, is under threat as a result of the continuous encroachment of its farm lands.
The activities of the encroache…
An economist, Dr John Gartchie Gatsi, says the incoming government must move straight to work and not assume the lame posture that ‘everything has been destroyed and they need time to restore them.’
He said the new government would have…
Max International Ghana, the producers of wellness and weight-loss supplements and products, is embarking on an expansion drive as it intends to open three more branches across the country this year.
This is aimed at expanding the reach…
US President-elect Donald Trump has held what he said was a "great meeting" in New York with Jack Ma, chairman of the e-commerce site Alibaba.
After the meeting Mr Ma said that both had agreed that US-China relations "should be strength…
It has sent rockets into space, produced millions of the world's smartphones and built high-speed trains. But until now, one bit of manufacturing had perhaps unexpectedly eluded China: the ballpoint pen.
A year ago Premier Li Keqiang we…
The Chief Executive Officer of the Women’s World Banking (WWBG), Ms Charlotte Lily Baidoo has been awarded an honourable fellow of the Institute of Certified Economist of Ghana (ICEG).
She was honoured for her extensive experience in Sm…
The Minister-designate for Food and Agricultural, Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto, has assured Ghanaians that he would turn around the fortunes of the agricultural sector when given the nod by Parliament later in the year.
He told the GRAPHIC BU…
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