Central Banks

Ghana Delays Rate Announcement After Calling Emergency Meeting

The headquarters of the Bank of Ghana, in Accra, Ghana,

Photographer: Nipah Dennis/Bloomberg

Investors look to a central bank for predictability in unpredictable times, but that’s not what they just got from the Bank of Ghana.

It unexpectedly advanced a gathering of the monetary policy committee and declared it would hold an emergency meeting on Thursday — with an announcement of the outcome on Friday — and then changed its mind.