Business News of Tuesday, 15 August 2006

Source: GNA

Accra Bourse in marginal gain

Accra, Aug. 15 GNA 96 The main index of the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) made a marginal gain on Tuesday gaining 0.29 points in trading that saw new entrant Ayrton selling more than 3.7 million shares. The GSE All Share Index, the main stock index, ended at 4,876.41 points from 4,876.12 points.

Change for the year was 2.25 per cent.

There were three price changes, all gains. Aluworks gained one cedi 6,804 cedis, ECOBANK gained one cedi at 11,791 cedis while Guinness Ghana Limited went up by four cedis at 9,230 cedis.

Total shares traded ended at 3,750,500 cedis while Market Capitalisation was 97,386.27 billion cedis.

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

ABL 1,150 AGA 300,000

ALW 6,804 +1

AYTTN 880 BAT 3,160 BOPP 5,500 CAL 1,900 CFAO 399 CLYD 1,000 CMLT 1,700 CPC 597

EBG 11,791 +1

EIC 8,290 FML 16,011 GCB 6,309 GGBL 9,230 GWEB 550 HFC 5,400 MLC 2,500 MOGL 54,000 PAF 800 PBC 2,800 PZ 6,600 SCB 137,000 SPL 550 SPPC 390 SG-SSB 6,748 SWL 265 TBL 27,000 UNIL 15,000