Business News of Thursday, 22 December 2005

Source: GNA

Accra bourse ends flat in dull market

Accra, Dec. 22, GNA - The Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) ended trading flat on Thursday with the bears continuing to dominate the bourse as the year winds down.

The GSE All-Share Index, the main stock index, stood still at 4,751.17 points.

Change for the year remained at -30.12 per cent and market capitalisation also ended flat at 91,809.98 billion cedis. Total shares that changed hands ended up at 66,200 from Wednesday's 25,200 shares.

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

ABL 1,300 AGA 300,000 AADs 3,000 ALW 5,001 BAT 3,050 BOPP 5,500 CAL 1,700 CFAO 400 CLYD 1,000 CMLT 1,700 CPC 600 EIC 6,855 FML 15,800

GCB 6,740 GGBL 7,736 GWEB 550 HFC 6,000 MLC 2,500 MOGL 38,000 PAF 800 PBC 3,000 PZ 6,500 SCB 130,000 SPL 580 SPPC 390 SG-SSB 7,200 SWL 290 TBL 27,000 UNIL 15,400