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The Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Dr. Ernest Addison is today [January 22, 2018] expected to announce the central bank\u2019s policy rate for commercial banks for the next couple of months.<\/p>\n

It follows the completion of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC\u2019s) annual meetings to review the Ghanaian economy.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s announcement will be the first for this year and it is expected to affect interest rates charged by banks on their loans given to customers.<\/p>\n

For last year alone, the central bank reduced the policy rate by 550 basis points.<\/p>\n

The rate was reduced from 25.5 percent in January 2017 to 20 percent as at November the same year.<\/p>\n

Checks by\u00a0Citi Business News<\/strong>\u00a0also indicate that between January and December 2017, the average interest on loans by commercial banks reduced by 7 percent.<\/p>\n

It went down from 27.6 percent in January to 25.7 percent as at December 2017.<\/p>\n

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By: Pius Amihere Eduku\/citibusinessnews.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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