{"id":332676,"date":"2025-12-24T03:50:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T03:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/332676\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T03:50:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T03:50:40","slug":"cedi-records-marginal-gains-against-us-dollar-with-2-days-to-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/332676\/","title":{"rendered":"Cedi records marginal gains against US dollar with 2 days to Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"article-123\">The Ghana cedi has recorded some marginal gains against major trading currencies ahead of Christmas day.<\/p>\n<p>Data from 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> show that the cedi is trading at GH\u00a211.42 to the US dollar on the interbank market as of December 23, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>However, a weaker cedi typically leads to higher prices for imported goods, such as food, clothing, electronics, and household items, which increases the cost of Christmas and New Year celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>Fuel prices may also rise since petroleum products are imported in dollars, potentially leading to higher transportation costs and increased expenses for businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the continued depreciation is expected to reduce purchasing power and place additional strain on household budgets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/business\/Cedi-holds-at-GH-11-51-to-1-a-week-to-Christmas-2014490\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cedi holds at GH\u00a211.51 to $1, a week to Christmas<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how the cedi is faring on 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> interbank market:<\/p>\n<p>\u2981Dollar &#8211; Buying at GH\u00a211.41, Selling at GH\u00a211.42<\/p>\n<p>\u2981Pound &#8211; Buying at GH\u00a215.35, Selling at GH\u00a215.36<\/p>\n<p>\u2981Euro &#8211; Buying at GH\u00a213.42, Selling at GH\u00a213.44<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how the cedi is trading at the forex bureaus:<\/p>\n<p>\u2981Dollar &#8211; Buying at GH\u00a212.10, Selling at GH\u00a212.45<\/p>\n<p>\u2981Pound &#8211; Buying at GH\u00a215.90, Selling at GH\u00a216.80<\/p>\n<p>\u2981Euro &#8211; Buying at GH\u00a213.90, Selling at GH\u00a214.80<\/p>\n<p>SP\/EB<\/p>\n<p>All you need to know about Ghana&#8217;s new vehicle number plates |BizTech:<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ghana cedi has recorded some marginal gains against major trading currencies ahead of Christmas day. Data from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-332676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332676","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=332676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}