Business News of Thursday, 29 December 2005

Source: GNA

Accra bourse inches up in another dull trading

Accra, Dec. 29, GNA - The penultimate trading on the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) for the year ended on a quiet note on Thursday as only one equity saw a change in price. The GSE All-Share Index, the main stock gauge, gained 0.02 points to close trading at 4,751.45 points while change for the year remained the same at -30.11 per cent.

Total shares traded closed lower at 67,900 from Wednesday's 153,600 shares.

Market capitalisation moved up to 91,810.72 billion cedis from 91,810.68 billion cedis. On the broader market, there was only one price change - a one cedi gain by Aluwworks at 5,003 cedis.

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

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

ALW 5,003 +1

BAT 3,050 BOPP 5,500 CAL 1,700 CFAO 400 CLYD 1,000 CMLT 1,700 CPC 600 EIC 6,855 FML 15,800 GCB 6,740

GGBL 7,740

GWEB 550 HFC 6,000 MLC 2,500 MOGL 38,000 PAF 800 PBC 3,000 PZ 6,500 SCB 130,000 SPL 580 SPPC 390 SG-SSB 7,200 SWL 290 TBL 27,000 UNIL 15,400