Ghana keeps key rate steady, says positive about IMF deal

ACCRA (Reuters) - The Bank of Ghana held its main policy rate unchanged at 21.0 percent on Wednesday in a widely expected move and cited a moderated risk to inflation due to lower oil prices, its Governor Henry Kofi Wampah said. The government is due to start a final round of talks on Wednesday with the International Monetary Fund for a financial package aimed at resolving fiscal problems that have helped slow growth in an economy that produces gold, cocoa and oil. Wampah said he was "very