{"id":199851,"date":"2025-06-09T13:50:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T11:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghanas-cedi-becomes-worlds-best-performing-currency-in-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T13:50:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T11:50:53","slug":"ghanas-cedi-becomes-worlds-best-performing-currency-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghanas-cedi-becomes-worlds-best-performing-currency-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana&#8217;s Cedi Becomes World&#8217;s Best-Performing Currency in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"1\"><em>TLDR<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ghana&#8217;s cedi has gained nearly 50% against the US dollar in 2025, making it the strongest-performing currency globally this year<\/li>\n<li>Starting the year at \u20b515 to the dollar, the currency appreciated steadily to \u20b510.21 by early June<\/li>\n<li>The appreciation is driven by improved investor sentiment, record gold export earnings, and tighter monetary policy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Ghana&#8217;s cedi has gained nearly 50% against the US dollar in 2025, making it the strongest-performing currency globally this year, according to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506090145.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>TLDR Ghana&#8217;s cedi has gained nearly 50% against the US dollar in 2025, making it the strongest-performing currency globally this year Starting the year at \u20b515 to the dollar, the currency appreciated steadily to \u20b510.21 by early June The appreciation is driven by improved investor sentiment, record gold export earnings, and tighter monetary policy Ghana&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":199852,"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":[258,256,31916,28395,9987,4509,8226,257,254,7787],"class_list":["post-199851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bestperforming","tag-cedi","tag-currency","tag-ghana-news","tag-ghanas","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-worlds"],"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\/199851","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=199851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}