Business News of Friday, 17 June 2005

Source: GNA

Accra Bourse still virtually unchanged

Accra, June 17, GNA - The Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) again ended virtually unchanged on Monday with investors still giving a cold shoulder to the bourse.

The GSE All-Share Index, the main market index, went up by 0.08 points to 6,034.07 from 6,033.99 points on Friday and change for the year remained flat at -11.25 per cent.

Total Shares traded dropped to 143,200 from 243,500, while market capitalisation inched up at 95,006.94 billion cedis. On the broader market, there was only one price change - a one-cedi gain by CFAO at 361 cedis.

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 361 +1

CLYD 1,300 CMLT 1,701 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