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Transcripts For FBC MONEY With Melissa Francis 20150105

Point. See how stocks are trading. That news weighing heavily on stocks. The dow is down 300 points. The panel is standing by. I want to bring in chad morganlander of still nick loss on the phone, stiffle nicolaus. People say that the Global Economy is slowing. What is your take . We believe there is deceleration of Global Growth although 2015 will be of course positive here in the United States but over the weekend we did see political instability within the eurozone, which pretty much kicked off the selling pressure in the euro equity markets and then followed by a downward pressure within the oil market. That is what is causing this dislocation within the market in the short run. Melissa so you obviously think it continues . We do. We believe oil will continue to sell off. We do believe investors should perhaps move up ....

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Must Ghana panic over China's first ever cocoa export to Europe?


Must Ghana panic over China s first ever cocoa export to Europe?
By Felix Kwame Quainoo
Felix Kwame Quainoo
The international media and Ghana s local media have been awash with news of China s first ever export of cocoa beans to Europe, precisely Belgium. According to the Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences (CATAS) the first batch of 500 kg of cocoa beans worth 3,044 euros (about $3600) was produced in the Xinglonga township of south China s island province of Hainan which has a tropical climate. This was first reported by China Daily.
This news seems to have unsettled Ghanaians both home and abroad and rightly so because apart from Ghana being the world s second largest producer and exporter of cocoa, cocoa is also the single most important export crop of Ghana raking in millions of dollars annually for the West African cocoa producing giant. It is a well-known fact that Ghana s economy cannot survive without cocoa. Cocoa is unarguably the life blood ....

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