{"id":1239460,"date":"2022-10-31T12:03:26","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T12:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/31\/cedi-strengthens-again-to-the-dollar-one-dollar-now-%c2%a213-60\/"},"modified":"2022-10-31T12:03:26","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T12:03:26","slug":"cedi-strengthens-again-to-the-dollar-one-dollar-now-%c2%a213-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/31\/cedi-strengthens-again-to-the-dollar-one-dollar-now-%c2%a213-60\/","title":{"rendered":"Cedi strengthens again to the dollar; one dollar now \u00a213.60"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/1666292802_199_Dollar-and-cedi-1024x595.png\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>The rate of depreciation of the cedi  slowed down for three days running as the local currency is now going for \u00a213.60 to one US dollar.<\/p>\n<p>The local currency strengthened against the American \u2018greenback\u2019 the whole of last week, gaining about 1.07% in value.<\/p>\n<p>However, it is still the worst-performing currency on the African continent in 2022, depreciating by about 55% to the US dollar since January 1, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>President Akufo-Addo on October 30, 2022, assured investors that they would not lose their funds due to the ongoing engagements with the International Monetary Fund.<\/p>\n<p>This pronouncement may somehow have assured investors that the government is committed to turning the economy around.<\/p>\n<p>Before then, the President had met the Ghana Association of Banks, the Association of Ghana Industries, among other stakeholders to find a remedy to the fast depreciation of the cedi as well as other economic challenges facing the country.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to that the Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Dr. Ernest Addison, had met the Ghana Association of Bankers and the Forex Bureaus Association of Ghana over the cedi\u2019s woes.<\/p>\n<p>Again, the presence of the first tranche of the cocoa syndicated loan is expected to boost dollar supply in the forex market, hence reducing the high demand for the American \u2018greenback\u2019 in the past months.<\/p>\n<p>Checks by Joy Business at the forex bureaus also indicate that the cedi continued to regain value against the pound and the euro. It is presently going for \u00a215 and \u00a213 to the pound and euro respectively.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BoG revokes licences of 2 popular forex bureaus<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Bank of Ghana on October 27, 2022 revoked the licences of two popular forex bureaus \u2013 Airport City Forex Bureau within the Atlantic Tower Building and Trade House Forex Bureau at the Marina Mall in the Greater Accra region.<\/p>\n<p>The closure of these forex bureaus followed failure by the operators to desist from issuing receipts as well as breaching the foreign exchange laws.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-myjoyonline-com wp-block-embed-myjoyonline-com\"\/>\n<p><strong>DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rate of depreciation of the cedi slowed down for three days running as the local currency is now going for \u00a213.60 to one US dollar. The local currency strengthened against the American \u2018greenback\u2019 the whole of last week, gaining about 1.07% in value. However, it is still the worst-performing currency on the African continent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1229702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[672,4219,6456],"class_list":["post-1239460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-cedi","tag-dollar","tag-strengthens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239460","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=1239460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1239460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1239460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1239460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}