Business News of Monday, 12 January 2009

Source: GNA

Accra bourse Index opens the week down

Accra, Jan. 12, GNA - The GSE All-Share Index, the main measure of performance of the Exchange, opened the week on Monday down by 4.14 points to close lower at 10,424.20 points from 10,428.34 points. The change year to date now stands at -0.07 per cent.

The only price change for the session was a loss by the Ghana Commercial Bank, which shed GH¢ 0.01 to close at GH¢ 1.09. Traded volumes closed the session at 107,600 shares.

Market capitalisation was down marginally at GH¢17,890.37 million from GH¢17,893.02 million during Friday's close.

The following are the closing prices of equities in Ghana cedis

Equities Share Code Closing Price in GH cedis

Accra Brewery Ltd ABL 0.12 Anglo Gold Ashanti AGA 30.00 Aluworks Limited ALW 0.61 Ayrton Drug Man. Ltd. AYRTN 0.16 Benso Oil Palm Plantation BOPP 1.00 Cal Bank Limited CAL 0.60 CFAO Ghana Limited CFAO 0.04 Clydestone Ghana Ltd CLYD 0.08 Camelot Ghana Limited CMLT 0.16 Cocoa Processing Com Ltd CPC 0.05 Ecobank Ghana Ltd EBG 4.50 Enterprise Insurance Co. Ltd EIC 3.14 Ecobank Transnational Inc. ETI 0.45 Fan Milk Limited FML 4.50 Ghana Commercial Bank Ltd GCB 1.09 -0.01

Guinness Ghana Breweries Ltd GGBL 2.00 Ghana Oil Company GOIL 0.32 Golden Star Resources GSR 3.10 Golden Web Ltd GWEB 0.05 HFC Bank Ltd HFC 0.62 Mechanical Lloyd Co. Ltd MLC 0.21 Pioneer Kitchenware Ltd PKL 0.07 Produce Buying Company PBC 0.21 PZ Cussons Ghana Ltd PZ 1.12

Standard Chart. Bank Gh.Ltd SCB 38.00 SIC Insurance Company Limited SIC 0.50

Starwin Products Limited SPL 0.05 Super Paper Products Co. Ltd SPPC 0.10 SG-SSB Limited SG-SSB 1.35 Sam Woode Limited SWL 0.03 Trust Bank Ltd (Gambia) TBL 1.33 TOTAL Petroleum Ghana Ltd TOTAL 7.60 Transaction Solutions Gh.Ltd TRANSOL 0.11 Unilever Ghana Ltd UNIL 4.00 Unique Trust UT 0.32

AngloGold Ashanti Depository Shares AADS 0.35