{"id":178974,"date":"2016-01-04T17:17:24","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T17:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=178974"},"modified":"2016-01-04T17:17:24","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T17:17:24","slug":"178974","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/01\/178974\/","title":{"rendered":"(Audio) Top business stories of 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The year 2015 was a difficult year for most business operating in Ghana due to the numerous economic challenges that have engulfed the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With rising inflation and interest rates as well as an unstable currency coupled with a power crisis that saw the cost of operations of many businesses running significantly high as compared to other years it was a tough year indeed for many companies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Though stories around the power crisis, the cedi, the IMF and the country&#8217;s economic challenges made business news almost every day a number of other key business stories also caught our attention this year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Click below to listen to a review of business stories that made headlines in 2015.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/240362732&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Vivian Kai Lokko\/Citimonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The year 2015 was a difficult year for most business operating in Ghana due to the numerous economic challenges that have engulfed the country. 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