Pulse Business Wrap - 25th Feb 2016 | President lauds TOR staff, ADB extends IPO, UT Bank SME Clinic
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Channel: Pulse Ghana · 2016 · Entertainment
President John Mahama has expressed gratitude to the staff of the Tema Oil Refinery for volunteering to take a 20% pay cut in order to facilitate the come back of TOR. The Refinery that has been unoperational for years, comes onboard to improve the supply of refined crude on the domestic market. In other news The Agricultural Development Bank Limited has extended the closing date of its Initial Public Offering to the 24th of March 2016. This was communicated to Pulse Business, after the Securities and Exhchange Commission granted the company an extendtion to the IPO which was supposed to ended on Thursday 26 February, 2016. Shares can be bought at any ADB branch, any Standard Chartered Bank (“SCB”) branch, IC Securities (Ghana) Limited or any Licensed Dealing Member (“LDM”) of the Ghana Stock Exchange (“GSE”). UT Bank has held its first ever SME clinic at the Best Western Hotel in Accra. The clinic ,held under the theme Funding Your Business- Strategies, Options and Considerations, brought together small business owners to discuss strategies towards improving their business. Opening the clinic,the chief executive officer of the bank ,Mr.Stephen Antwi Asimeng outlined the role of SME’s in the Ghanaian economy . "Research has proven that 70% of annual GDP is contributed by SME’s.Collectively they contribute the largest share to the economy.UT Bank’s core area is SME.we have come to understand that SME's usually need a lot more than financing and that is why we have assembled the best SME minds to teach us how to unravel some of the problems." We go to the currency market now where Currency Buying Selling Dollar 3.90 4.28 Pound Sterling 5.42 5.70 Euro 4.28 4.58 On how your stocks performed on the GSE Index today, Four companies dropped 1p each to close the day. They include Ghana Oil Company Limited PZ CUSSONS GHANA LTD SAMBA FOODS LIMITED TOTAL PETROLEUM GHANA LIMITED Ghana Commercial Bank Limited were the biggest gainers, gaining 1p to close at 3.72p ************************************** WATCH ALL VIDEOS IN THIS PLAYLIST: http://bit.ly/1OjREbX For more news, interviews, entertainment, funny videos and more like this, SUBSCRIBE NOW: http://bit.ly/pulseghana Pulse.com.gh is Ghana's online news platform, serving round-the-clock news, politics, business, sports, entertainment, lifestyle, events and videos. To get the latest news, go to our website: http://pulse.com.gh FOLLOW Pulse.com.gh on social media: FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/pulseghana TWITTER: https://twitter.com/pulseghana INSTAGRAM: https://instagram.com/pulseghana GOOGLE PLUS: https://plus.google.com/+PulseGhana0 Get daily news updates via Whatsapp. Simply save +233200654321 as “Pulse GH News” and send START via Whatsapp to receive updates. DOWNLOAD the Pulse.com.gh news app and stay informed everywhere you go. Android: http://bit.ly/1Dsi8UT iPhone: http://apple.co/1MihCjh
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