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Traders flocked to the crude oil options market last week, trading record numbers of call options that Brent would hit $100 per barrel in the coming months, data compiled by Bloomberg showed on Monday. As tensions in the Middle East…

Ghana has reached a Staff-Level Agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for the second review of the Extended Credit Facility, but the Executive Board insists that the Ghanaian authorities must obtain the needed financial…

Women in Ghanaian politics are usually the primary targets of coordinated political attacks during election periods and this year would not be any different. What we have failed to appreciate over the years is that when a woman is targeted…

The price of petrol and diesel is projected to further increase by about 5% and 4% per litre respectively at the pumps in the coming days. This results from international market dynamics and poor performance of the local currency.…

Recently, Ghana’s National Biosafety Authority (NBA) approved 14 GMO products for commercialisation. This approval of the commercialisation of these GMO products was not done in the interest of the majority of Ghanaians, be they farmers or…

Ghana is synonymous with peace. Politicians, businessmen, traditional authorities, religious people, citizens and foreigners alike have all experienced a certain Ghana that was known for its peace.  Somehow the citizens had mastered…

Interest rates remained relatively the same for the first time since the beginning of the year. This follows a rise in inflation in March 2024 to 25.8%. The yield on the 91-day bill stayed the same at 25.73%. That of the 182-day…

Ghana has failed to strike a deal with two bondholder groups to restructure $13 billion of international bonds, the government said on Monday, dealing a blow to its efforts to swiftly emerge from default and economic crisis. Talks were…

It has been more than six months since the resurgence of this chronic power outage in Ghana. It began as a short period outage that gave hope to consumers that it would be restored in less than five minutes. Little did we know that it…

In trying to understand some goings-on in Ghana in recent times, my mind wandered off to an encounter across the Atlantic with a six-year-old nephew some years ago! In our Ghanaian culture, a child is not allowed to tell an adult he is…