Remittances to Ghana drop by 16.9% - BoG
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Bank of Ghana figures showed cash remittances from overseas Ghanaians dropped 16.9 percent to 1.92 billion dollars.
The remittance was mostly from the United States of America and Canada, United Kingdom, the European Union enclave, ECOWAS and other African countries.
The USA and Canada were the biggest senders, remitting about $1.1billion in 2015.
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We go to the currency market now where
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Dollar 3.84 4.14
Pound Sterling 5.43 5.73
Euro 4.20 4.50
On how your stocks performed on the GSE Index today
Guinness Ghana Breweries Ltd. were the biggest losers of the day, losing 3p to close at 1.93p.
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There were no gainers for the day.
