Business News of Wednesday, 16 November 2005

Source: GNA

Accra bourse inches up

Accra, Nov. 16, GNA - The Ghana Stock Exchange continued its slow rise on Wednesday with the GSE-All Share Index, the main market measure, going up by 0.19 points in a dull market that saw only one price appreciation.

The Index ended trading at 4,899.40 points up from 4,899.21 points. Guinness Ghana Brewery Limited gained three cedis at 7,655 cedis. Market capitalisation was better at 92,205.38 billion cedis, up from 92,204.88 billion cedis.

Traded shares fell to 150,400 shares down from 275,500 shares. Change for the year remained at -27.94 per cent.

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

ABL 1,480 AGA 300,000 AADs 3,000 ALW 5,005 BAT 3,300 BOPP 6,000 CAL 2,000 CFAO 405 CLYD 1,000 CMLT 1,800 CPC 600 EIC 7,000 FML 15,655 GCB 6,748

GGBL 7,655 +3

GWEB 550 HFC 6,800 MLC 2,500 MOGL 38,000 PAF 800 PBC 3,000 PZ 6,500 SCB 134,000 SPL 580 SPPC 390 SG-SSB 7,865 SWL 290 TBL 27,900 UNIL 15,500