Business News of Monday, 30 January 2006

Source: GNA

Accra bourse falls on big PBC loss

Accra, Jan. 30, GNA - The Accra bourse recorded significant losses in the various indices on a big loss in the share price of Produce Buying Company (PBC).

The All-Share Index, the main market index, fell by 35.8 points to 4,692.84 points in another day that saw a mere 32,400 shares changing hands.

Change of the year-to-date slumped to -1.60 per cent from -0.85 per cent.

Market capitalization was also down at 91,655.62 billion cedis from 91,750.41 billion cedis.

There were two price changes, one up and one down. PBC lost 200 cedis to close trading at 2,800 cedis while Aluworks gained 29 cedis at 5,540 cedis.

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

ABL 1,150 AGA 300,000 AADs 3,000

ALW 5,540 +29

BAT 3,050 BOPP 5,500 CAL 1,690 CFAO 400 CLYD 1,000 CMLT 1,700 CPC 600 EIC 6,858 FML 15,800 GCB 6,200 GGBL 8,200 GWEB 550 HFC 6,000 MLC 2,500 MOGL 38,000 PAF 800 PBC 2,800 -200 PZ 6,500 SCB 130,000 SPL 570 SPPC 390 SG-SSB 7,000 SWL 290 TBL 27,000 UNIL 15,400