{"id":177684,"date":"2024-08-01T03:03:18","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T01:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-demand-for-dollar-to-increase-as-importers-prepare-for-christmas-festivities\/"},"modified":"2024-08-01T03:03:18","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T01:03:18","slug":"ghana-demand-for-dollar-to-increase-as-importers-prepare-for-christmas-festivities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-demand-for-dollar-to-increase-as-importers-prepare-for-christmas-festivities\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Demand for Dollar to Increase As Importers Prepare for Christmas Festivities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\"><em>Currency deals say governments needs to be proactive to forestall a free fall of the cedi as importers prepare to place orders for Christmas<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"58\">Currency dealers are cautioning that the demand for the dollar will rise in August as importers begin placing orders for Christmas goods. Traditionally, the <a href=\"https:\/\/theaccratimes.com\/cedi-appreciates-marginally-on-the-back-of-imf-board-approval\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cedi<\/a> has depreciated from August through November, a trend exacerbated in the past two years by delays in the cocoa syndicated loan and Ghana&#8217;s exclusion from the capital market due to its debt distress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\"...<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407310447.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Currency deals say governments needs to be proactive to forestall a free fall of the cedi as importers prepare to place orders for Christmas Currency dealers are cautioning that the demand for the dollar will rise in August as importers begin placing orders for Christmas goods. Traditionally, the cedi has depreciated from August through November, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":177685,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,4924,7617,10746,17344,4508,4509,16489,6721,257,6805,254],"class_list":["post-177684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-christmas","tag-demand","tag-dollar","tag-festivities","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-importers","tag-increase","tag-news","tag-prepare","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}