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Republi Bank (Ghana) Ltd. -26.79% Benso Oil Palm Plantation -30.07% CURRENCY MARKET The Cedi weakened against the USD for the week. It traded at GH¢5.7145/$ on Friday, against GH¢5.7139/$ at week open, reflecting w/w and YTD depreciations of 0.01% and 3.16% respectively against the USD. This compares with YTD depreciation of 12.97% a year ago. The Cedi however strengthened against the GBP on the week. It traded at GH¢7.5535/£, compared with GH¢7.7082/£ at week open, reflecting w/w apprec...

Plan would add $1.7 trillion to the deficit. cnn congressional cophil is her with me. >> a couple of issues whether it comes to math how biggest issue of all how do you get 216 republicans to vote for it. thats the ultimate answer they want. you talk about the cbo score, and heres why its important. because of the senate to pass this with just 51 republicans, and they have majority of 52 over there, they need to hit a basically a top line number of $1.5 trillion when it comes to their deficit ta...

strategy in the country. an american sergeant is suspected of the killings near his combat post near kandahar. afghan president hamid karzai has described the incident has unforgivable. the war in afghanistan and syria are certain to dominate discussions at the white house this tuesday as david cameron visits barack obama. they both have pledged to maintain the special relationship between their countries. those are the headlines from cnn. im monita rajpal. "world business today" s...

4:00 a.m. when the mall opened. >> you can be a black friday soldier not getting up at 4:00. get here, chill, get coffee. people that got here super early, god bless them. i get here later and its not quite so cut-throat. >> reporter: it was red friday on wall street. all the major indexes closed down on more bad news from europe. the dow joness had been up 100 points, on hopes that european leaders would announce more progress on the debt crisis there. on top of that, standard & poors downgrade...

U.s. figures are slightly lower after a european and asian stocks fell sharply. kayla joins us with the rundown. how bad will it be? >> we thought it would be worse. futures have come up a slight bit. they are in the red. the s&p looks to open off about six points. the dow off 64 and the nasdaq down about 18. the key reason for that is yesterday we did hear from the greek finance ministry that said they were going to miss the deficit target they had set for the end of the year. thats really, rea...

republican backers. dont worry. you run. well take care of the money. >> he has rather moderate views on social issues conservatives may not be hip to. >> well talk a lot about that this morning. something else were talking a lot about. amanda knoxs first hope for freedom. the american student is waiting to see if her murder conviction will be overturned. she made her case to the jury earlier this morning. now an agonizing waiting game for her. part of what a tearful knox told the cour...

They sent off a package of $110 million to portugal. they are convinced that portugal has turned a corner. ireland at 10.5% is quite high. they think ireland cannism port their way out of trouble. portugal there with a deficit targeted at 6% for the year. the real problem and all of a sudden the screws have been turned on greece at this meeting with the deficit target of 9.5%. it was supposed to be below 8% this year. theres extreme concern right now that the debt, soaring to 157% of gdp is a pr...

last night, the irish police received a warning about a device which would be on some form of public transport. it was discovered on a private bus just outside dublin. the passengers were evacuated and the devices made safe after about two hours. it was defused. this can is coming now three hours before the queen is supposed to touch down at the girng of a four-day states visit. this is the largest security operation in the history of the irish state. some 10,000 police and army are gu...