Business News of Tuesday, 6 April 2010

Source: GNA

Accra Bourse Index closes flat, trade active

Accra, April 6, GNA -The Accra bourse Index closes flat in trading o= n Tuesday at 6,041.18 points for a year to date gain of 8.41 percent. Traded volumes rallied to their highest of over 141.2 million shares=

valued at GH¢22.6 million, mainly on the back of Adcock Ingram's acquis= ition of over 65.59 percent of the issued shares of its Ghanaian counterpart Ayrton Drugs Manufacturing Company. Market Capitalisation closed the session up at GH¢17,835.98 millio= n.

The following are the closing prices of equities in Ghana Cedis:

Equities Share Code Closing Price in GH¢

Accra Brewery Ltd ABL 0.10 African Champion Industries Ltd ACI 0.09 Anglo Gold Ashanti AGA 34.00 Aluworks Limited ALW 0.44

Ayrton Drug Man. Ltd. AYRTN 0.14 Benso Oil Palm Plantation BOPP 0.50 Cal Bank Limited CAL 0.19 CFAO Ghana Limited CFAO 0.03 Clydestone Ghana Ltd CLYD 0.07 Camelot Ghana Limited CMLT 0.16 Cocoa Processing Com Ltd CPC 0.03 Ecobank Ghana Ltd EBG 3.85 Enterprise Insurance Co. Ltd EIC 2.02 Ecobank Transnational Inc. ETI 0.15 Fan Milk Limited FML 6.90 Ghana Commercial Bank Ltd GCB 0.98 Guinness Ghana Breweries Ltd GGBL 1.39 Ghana Oil Company GOIL 0.19 Golden Star Resources GSR 3.00 Golden Web Ltd GWEB 0.05

HFC Bank Ltd HFC 0.55 Mechanical Lloyd Co. Ltd MLC 0.18 Pioneer Kitchenware Ltd PKL 0.07 Produce Buying Company PBC 0.09 PZ Cussons Ghana Ltd PZC 1.10 StandardChart Bank Gh. Ltd SCB 32.85 SIC Insurance Company Limited SIC 0.29 Starwin Products Limited SPL 0.05 SG-SSB Limited SG-SSB 0.47 Sam Woode Limited SWL 0.03 Trust Bank Ltd (Gambia) TBL 1.33 TOTAL Petroleum Ghana Ltd TOTAL 7.16 Transaction Solutions Gh. Ltd TRANSOL 0.09 Unilever Ghana Ltd UNIL 3.39 UT Financial Services UTF 0.25 AngloGold Ashanti Depository Shares AADS 0.30