Business News of Friday, 22 December 2006

Source: GNA

Accra bourse ends pre-Christmas trading on quiet note

Accra, Dec. 22, GNA - The Accra bourse ended pre-Christmas on a quiet note with an equity making a move and volumes remaining low. The GSE All-Share Index, the main market index, inched up by 0.03 points at 5,005.91 points while total volumes traded slipped at 105,400 from 153,800 shares on Thursday. The change for the year to date remained unchanged at 4.97 per cent. ECOBANK Ghana Limited, the only price gainer, made one cedi to close at 13,515 cedis. Market capitalisation ended at 112,415.36 billion cedis from 112,415.20 billion cedis on Thursday.

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

ABL 1,150

AGA 300,000

ALW 7,251

ARYTN 976

BAT 3,300

BOPP 5,500

CAL 2,205

CFAO 399

CLYD 800

CMLT 1,700

CPC 538

EBG 13,515 + 1

EIC 8,818

ETI 22,700

FML 18,000

GCB 6,150

GGBL 9,248

GWEB 550

HFC 5,400

MLC 2,100

PKL 800

PBC 2,600

PZ 6,650

SCB 158,000

SPL 550

SPPC 225

SG-SSB 6,000

SWL 265

TBL 26,500

TOTAL 54,020

UNIL 15,000

AADS 3,101 2