Central Banks

Ghana Holds Key Rate as Cedi Rally Seen Taming Inflation

A customer makes a purchase at the Makola market in Accra, Ghana.

Photographer: Ernest Ankomah/Bloomberg

Ghana’s central bank kept its key interest rate on hold to maintain downward pressure on inflation, which is expected to get a boost from the West African nation’s world-beating currency.

The monetary policy committee kept the policy rate at 28%, Governor Johnson Asiama told reporters on Friday in the capital, Accra. All three economists in a Bloomberg survey correctly predicted the decision.