{"id":50511,"date":"2014-09-23T20:28:12","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T20:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=50511"},"modified":"2014-09-23T20:28:12","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T20:28:12","slug":"cedi-slowly-gaining-stability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/09\/cedi-slowly-gaining-stability\/","title":{"rendered":"Cedi slowly gaining stability"},"content":{"rendered":"

The cedi over these past weeks has experienced some level of stability and in some cases, slight appreciation against some of the major foreign currencies.<\/p>\n

Last week, the cedi was stable against the dollar for most part of that week.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, on the interbank foreign exchange market, the cedi was at GHC 3.19peswes while at Forex Bureaus, it was at GHC 3.80peswes.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, it maintained the figure on the interbank market but dropped by a peswa at Forex Bureaus to end the day at GHC 3.79peswes.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”16cMnk0eDX6gREy1lNkeT6exkyiYIIl3″]On Thursday, it went up on the interbank foreign exchange market hitting GHC 3.20peswes.<\/p>\n

It has stayed at this figure till today, while at the Forex Bureaus on Wednesday, it hit GHC 3.79peswes, GHC 3.80peswes on Thursday GHC 3.79 peswes Friday and GHC 3.70peswes today.<\/p>\n

The positive development is expected to continue within the coming weeks following the successful issue of the 1 billion dollar Eurobond, COCOBOD’s $1.7 billion syndicated loan as well as talks with the IMF.<\/p>\n

But has the cedi’s performance over the few weeks had any impact on businesses which suffered greatly over its poor performance in previous months.<\/p>\n

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Citi News\u2019 Pearl Akanya Ofori visited some business districts in Accra and has come through with this report.<\/strong>
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