Accra, Jan. 19, GNA - The Accra bourse made another rise in slow trading on Friday buoyed by gains in Ghana Commercial Bank (GCB), Patterson Zochonis (PZ) and Benso Oil Palm Plantation (BOPP) shares. The GSE All-Share Index, the main stock index, rose by 5.31 points to 6,899.01 points.

Change for the year now stands at 1.48 per cent.

Shares that changed hands once again closed lower at 136,400 from Wednesday's 466,800 shares.

There were four price changes, all positive. Ghana Commercial Bank was 50 cedis richer at 11,700 cedis, Benso Oil Palm Plantation (BOPP) went up 20 cedis to close at 6,600 cedis, CFAO was better by six cedis at 246 cedis and Patterson Zochonis gained 150 cedis at 5,000 cedis.

Market capitalisation closed at 97,894.85 billion cedis from 3,663.42 million issued shares.

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

ABL 1,480 AGA 300,000 AADs 3,006 ALW 10,000 BAT 7,700

BOPP 6,600 +20

CAL 3,400

CFAO 246 +6

CLYD 1,330 CMLT 970 CPC 1,000 EIC 8,000 FML 20,000 GBL 1,600

GCB 11,700 +50

GGL 12,700 HFC 9,900 MGL 275 MLC 3,100 MOGL 39,005 PAF 800 PBC 3,600

PZ 5,000 +150

SCB 170,000 SPL 760 SPPC 390 SG-SSB 27,000 SWL 290 TBL 31,000 UNIL 22,000