Ghana-Isreal mull chamber of commence

Ghana-Isreal mull chamber of commence

Ghana and Israel are considering boosting their economic relations by creating a chamber of commerce, Iraeli Ambassador to Ghana, Mr Ami Mehl has said.

According to Mehl, businesses in the two countries are eager to cooperate and implement initiatives that will growth the economy of the two countries.

Freight forwarders want IDF reverted

The Ghana Institute of Freight Forwarders Association has called on the trade and industry ministry to revert the Import Declaration Forms (IDF) tax policy.

The Association say the trade ministry imposed the newly implemented IDF tax policy which can only be paid through the UBA bank two weeks ago.

Executive member of the Association, Kwaku Otchere Darko, says the new policy is causing a lot of complications at the port.

Darko laments the new policy is relevant and only complicating issues

We go to the currency market now where

Currency                      Buying                         Selling

Dollar                            3.80                             4.10

Pound Sterling             5.48                              5.78

Euro                             4.28                              4.58

On how your stocks performed on the GSE Index today

ECOBANK GHANA LTDand BENSO OIL PALM PLANTATION LIMITED were the biggest losers of the day, dropping 5p each to close at  6.79p and 3.05p respectively.

There were no gainers for the day.