Business News of Friday, 23 April 2010

Source: GNA

Accra bourse index ends on positive note

Accra, April 23, GNA - The GSE All-Share Index rose 130 points 6,449= ..38 points from 6,319.38 points. This brings the gain so far this year to 15.74 percent. Traded volumes closed the session up a little over 1.1 million share= s valued at GH¢651,488.14.

On the broader market, there were seven price changes - six gainers and one loser. Ghana Commercial Bank gained GH¢0.02 at GH¢1.03, Produce Buying Company was up GH¢0.01 at GH¢0.12, Standard Chartered Bank was up GH¢0.02 a= t GH¢39.71. Other gainers including Ghana Oil Company soared GH¢0.01 at GH¢0= ..19, Fan Milk Limited up GH¢0.05 at GH¢6.95 and Ecobank Transnational Incorporated gained GH¢0.01 at GH¢0.17. The sole loser was Enterprise Insurance Company, which shed GH¢0.0= 7 at GH¢1.68. Market Capitalization closed the session at GH¢18,172.16 million.

The following are the closing prices of equities in Ghana cedis:

Equities Share Code Closing Price in GH¢

Accra Brewery Ltd ABL 0.10 African Champion Industries Ltd ACI 0.09 Anglo Gold Ashanti AGA 34.00 Aluworks Limited ALW 0.40 Ayrton Drug Man. Ltd. AYRTN 0.16 Benso Oil Palm Plantation BOPP 0.50 Cal Bank Limited CAL 0.21 CFAO Ghana Limited CFAO 0.03 Clydestone Ghana Ltd CLYD 0.07 Camelot Ghana Limited CMLT 0.16 Cocoa Processing Com Ltd CPC 0.03 Ecobank Ghana Ltd EBG 3.58 Enterprise Insurance Co. Ltd EIC 1.65 -0.07 Ecobank Transnational Inc. ETI 0.17 +0.01 Fan Milk Limited FML 6.95 +0.05 Ghana Commercial Bank Ltd GCB 1.03 +0.02 Guinness Ghana Breweries Ltd GGBL 1.40 Ghana Oil Company GOIL 0.19 +0.01

Golden Star Resources GSR 3.00 Golden Web Ltd GWEB 0.05 HFC Bank Ltd HFC 0.60 Mechanical Lloyd Co. Ltd MLC 0.18 Pioneer Kitchenware Ltd PKL 0.07 Produce Buying Company PBC 0.12 +0.01 PZ Cussons Ghana Ltd PZC 1.10 StandardChart Bank Gh. Ltd SCB 39.71 +0.02 SIC Insurance Company Limited SIC 0.30 Starwin Products Limited SPL 0.05 SG-SSB Limited SG-SSB 0.55 Sam Woode Limited SWL 0.03 Trust Bank Ltd (Gambia) TBL 1.33 TOTAL Petroleum Ghana Ltd TOTAL 7.16 Transaction Solutions Gh. Ltd TRANSOL 0.09 Unilever Ghana Ltd UNIL 3.46 UT Financial Services UTF 0.23 AngloGold Ashanti Depository Shares AADS 0.32