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Businesses’ confidence declines over economic challenges

For a fourth consecutive survey this year, the central bank’s measure of the sentiments of business owners in the country has shown a dwindling of confidence – citing economic challenges which have increased cost of production, created raw material shortages, weak consumer demand, among others, as reasons.

Mark Zuckerberg loses $6bn in hours after Facebook outage

Mark Zuckerberg's personal wealth has fallen by more than $7 billion in a few hours, knocking him down a notch on the list of the world's richest people, after a whistleblower came forward and outages took Facebook Inc.'s flagship products offline.

Ghana maintains same cocoa producer price for new crop season

Farmers who had been pushing for a 25 percent increase in the guaranteed farm gate price at which government purchases their cocoa were left disappointed last week as the Minister of Food and Agriculture, Dr Owusu Afriyie-Akoto announced that the producer price set for the 2020/21 crop season was being retained for the 2021/22 crop season which is about to commence.