{"id":231343,"date":"2025-10-29T03:54:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T03:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/231343\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T03:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T03:54:10","slug":"ghanas-reserves-hit-12-billion-as-inflation-eases-to-9-4-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/231343\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana&#8217;s reserves hit $12 billion as inflation eases to 9.4% in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/television\/news\/Ghana-s-reserves-hit-12-billion-as-inflation-eases-to-9-4-in-2025-Dr-Asiama-135827\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/12244120.295.jpg\" alt=\"Dr Johnson Asiama is the Governor of the Bank of Ghana\" title=\"Dr Johnson Asiama is the Governor of the Bank of Ghana\" width=\"295\" height=\"191\" \/> play video<\/a>Dr Johnson Asiama is the Governor of the Bank of Ghana<\/p>\n<p id=\"article-123\">The Governor of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=3532\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=3532\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bank of Ghana<\/a>, Dr Johnson Asiama, has announced that Ghana&#8217;s Gross International Reserves currently stand at US$12 billion, reflecting a much stronger economy in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the launch of the Cedi@60 on October 28, 2025, Dr Asiama stated that headline inflation had eased to 9.4 percent as of September 2025.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, inflation has long been a concern for Ghana\u2019s economy, hampering investor confidence and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHeadline inflation is now at 9.4% as of September 2025, and we expect it to end the year even lower. The cedi has appreciated by 37% as of October 17, and according to the World Bank, it is the best-performing currency in sub-Saharan Africa for the first eight months of 2025. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our gross international reserves are currently around $12 billion, providing a robust cushion against external volatility and restoring investor confidence,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/business\/LIVESTREAMED-Bank-of-Ghana-launches-Cedi-60-2006998\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LIVESTREAMED: <\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=3532\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=3532\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bank of Ghana<\/a> launches Cedi@60<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>In its recent report, the World Bank named the cedi as the best-performing currency in sub-Saharan Africa during the first eight months of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Asiama attributed this achievement to the government&#8217;s coordinated efforts in turning the fortunes of the economy around.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>SP\/AE<\/p>\n<p>All you need to know about Ghana&#8217;s new vehicle number plates |BizTech:<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"play videoDr Johnson Asiama is the Governor of the Bank of Ghana The Governor of the Bank of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-231343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}