Business News of Tuesday, 8 January 2008

Source: GNA

Accra bourse inches slightly

Accra, Jan. 8 GNA - The GSE All-Share Index, the main market indicator of the Accra bourse, rose from 3.73 points to close at 6,624.32 points.

Shares that changed hands closed the session at 100,800 shares. Change year to date now stands at 0.37 per cent. On the broader market, there were four positive price changes. Guinness Ghana Brewery Limited gained 0.0015 GH cedis at 1.2325 GH cedis, Ghana Commercial Bank went up by 0.0049 GH cedis at 1.0000 GH cedis and SG-SSB was up 0.0050 GH cedis at 1.2650 GH cedis. Other gainers were Ecobank Ghana and CAL Bank, which gained 0.0001 GH cedi each to close at 2.0502 GH cedis and 0.4551 GH cedis respectively. Market capitalisation increased slightly at 12,383.66 million GH cedis.

The following are the closing prices of equities in Ghana cedis

Equities Full Name Share Code Closing Price in GH cedis

Accra Brewery Ltd ABL 0.1150

Anglo Gold Ashanti AGA 30.0000 Aluworks Limited ALW 0.7100 Ayrton Drug Manufacturing Ltd. AYRTN 0.0978 Benso Oil Palm Plantation BOPP 0.4900

Cal Bank Limited CAL 0.4551 +0.0001

CFAO Ghana Limited CFAO 0.0350 Clydestone Ghana Ltd CLYD 0.0800 Camelot Ghana Limited CMLT 0.1700 Cocoa Processing Company Ltd CPC 0.0530 Ecobank Ghana Ltd EBG 2.0502 +0.0001 Enterprise Insurance Co. Ltd EIC 1.3000 Ecobank Transnational Inc. ETI 1.2815 Fan Milk Limited FML 2.4000

Ghana Commercial Bank Ltd GCB 1.0000 +0.0049

Guinness Ghana Breweries Ltd GGBL 1.2325 +0.0015

Ghana Oil Company GOIL 0.3100 Golden Web Ltd GWEB 0.0550 HFC Bank Ltd HFC 0.5400 Mechanical Llyod Co. Ltd MLC 0.2100 Pioneer Kitchenware Ltd PKL 0.0800 Produce Buying Company PBC 0.2400 PZ Cussons Ghana Ltd PZ 0.8380 Standard Chartered Bank Gh.Ltd SCB 26.0000 Starwin Products Limited SPL 0.0550 Super Paper Products Co. Ltd SPPC 0.0330 SG-SSB Limited SG-SSB 1.2650 +0.0050 Sam Woode Limited SWL 0.0265 Trust Bank Ltd (Gambia) TBL 1.3250 TOTAL Petroleum Ghana Ltd TOTAL 5.4910 Transaction Solutions Gh.Ltd TRANSOL 0.1200 Unilever Ghana Ltd UNIL 2.1200 AngloGold Ashanti Depository Shares AADS 0.3450