{"id":1217721,"date":"2022-10-06T21:07:16","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T21:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/06\/livestream-pm-express-business-edition-discusses-impact-of-policy-rate-on-businesses\/"},"modified":"2022-10-06T21:07:16","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T21:07:16","slug":"livestream-pm-express-business-edition-discusses-impact-of-policy-rate-on-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/06\/livestream-pm-express-business-edition-discusses-impact-of-policy-rate-on-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Livestream: PM Express business edition discusses impact of policy rate on businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-10-06-at-20.48.46-1024x1024.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) has increased the Policy Rate by 250 basis point to 24.5%. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is the highest policy rate increase since 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The rate hike means it will become more expensive to borrow from the banks, a situation that will push the cost of living and doing business in the country further up.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, the business edition of <strong>PM Express <\/strong>will analyse the impact of the decision by the MPC on the economy and Ghanaian businesses.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"Y474Vat6XsM\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"JoyNews Live Stream\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y474Vat6XsM?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) has increased the Policy Rate by 250 basis point to 24.5%. \u00a0 This is the highest policy rate increase since 2017. The rate hike means it will become more expensive to borrow from the banks, a situation that will push the cost of living [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1217723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[2009,1999,11272,1558,2310,3606,21369,587,179],"class_list":["post-1217721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-businesses","tag-discusses","tag-edition","tag-express","tag-impact","tag-livestream","tag-policy","tag-rate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1217721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1217721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1217721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1217721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}