Business News of Friday, 8 September 2006

Source: GNA

Accra bourse dips on CAL loss

Accra, Sept. 8, GNA - The Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) on Friday dipped on a significant loss by CAL Bank.

The GSE All-Share Index, the main bench mark, lost 5.0 points at 4,901.22 points from 4,906.22 points.

Shares that changed hands, however, went up at 92,400 from only 31,700 shares on Thursday.

On the broader market there were four price changes, three up and one down.

CAL Bank lost 100 cedis at 1,800 cedis, ECOBANK gained one cedi at 11,827 cedis; Enterprise Insurance Company gained four cedis at 8,406 cedis and Aluworks gained one cedi at 7,004 cedis. Market Capitalisation was 97,488.58 cedis, down from 97,503.96 billion cedis.

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

ABL 1,150 AGA 300,000

ALW 7,004 +1

AYTTN 890 BAT 3,160 BOPP 5,500

CAL 1,800 -100

CFAO 399 CLYD 1,000 CMLT 1,700 CPC 597

EBG 11,827 +1 EIC 8,406 +4 FML 16,151 GCB 6,150 GGBL 9,250 GWEB 550 HFC 5,400 MLC 2,500 MOGL 54,000 PAF 800 PBC 2,800 PZ 6,610 SCB 142,000 SPL 550 SPPC 390 SG-SSB 6,748 SWL 265 TBL 27,000 UNIL 15,100