Business News of Monday, 6 June 2005

Source: GNA

Stock Index slumps

Accra, June 6, GNA - Key indicators of the Ghana Stock Exchange remained unchanged from Friday's close during Monday's trading as investors continued to shy away from the market.

The benchmark GSE All-Share Index ended flat to open the week at 6,033.06 points same as on Friday.

Change for the year to date was static at - 11.26 per cent. There were no price changes.

Market capitalisation remained rooted at 95,004.26 billion cedis.

Traded volumes, however, sunk to 161,200 shares from 266,400 shares on Friday.

The following are the last prices of listed equities in cedis:

ABL 1,480 AGA 300,000 AADs 3,000 ALW 5,000 BAT 4,500 BOPP 6,000 CAL 3,200 CFAO 352 CLYD 1,300 CMLT 1,600 CPC 800 EIC 7,500 FML 18,000 GCB 12,400

GGBL 12,500

HFC 7,000 MGL 275 MLC 2,700 MOGL 38,000 PAF 800 PBC 3,000 PZ 6,000

SCB 134,000

SPL 720 SPPC 390

SG-SSB 25,000

SWL 290 TBL 27,900 UNIL 17,000