{"id":198472,"date":"2025-05-20T12:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T10:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-cedi-now-standout-performer-among-global-currencies-finance-minister\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T12:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T10:39:07","slug":"ghana-cedi-now-standout-performer-among-global-currencies-finance-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-cedi-now-standout-performer-among-global-currencies-finance-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Cedi Now Standout Performer Among Global Currencies &#8211; Finance Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The Minister of Finance (MoF), Dr Cassiel Ato Forson, said yesterday that the cedi has solidified its position as the standout performer among global currencies, achieving a 16.7 per cent appreciation against the US dollar year-to-date.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">This marked a significant reversal from the 13.4 per cent depreciation observed in the same period of 2024, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Speaking at the inauguration of the governing board of the GoldBod in Accra, the Minister acknowledged that the cedi appreciation rally stems from a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505200117.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>The Minister of Finance (MoF), Dr Cassiel Ato Forson, said yesterday that the cedi has solidified its position as the standout performer among global currencies, achieving a 16.7 per cent appreciation against the US dollar year-to-date. This marked a significant reversal from the 13.4 per cent depreciation observed in the same period of 2024, he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":198473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,8700,28395,25540,7829,4508,4509,6212,5941,257,51393,254,51392],"class_list":["post-198472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-among","tag-cedi","tag-currencies","tag-finance","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-global","tag-minister","tag-news","tag-performer","tag-south-africa-today","tag-standout"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/198472","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=198472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}