Business News of Friday, 9 January 2004

Source: GNA

Accra bourse index falls

Accra, Jan. 9, GNA - The benchmark GSE-All Share Index lost 25.38 points during Friday trading session, pulled down by a 1,000-cedi loss by SSB Bank Limited.

The index ended the day at 3,607.65 points from 3,633.03 points with change for the year declining to 1.53 points from 2.24 points. Total shares traded fell to 500,200 shares down from 561,000 shares recorded last Wednesday.

There were nine price changes - six positive and three negative. Standard Chartered Bank made one cedi at 67,001, Ghana Commercial Bank climbed up 15 cedis at 8,615 cedis, Guinness Ghana Limited was up four cedis at 5,670 cedis, Home Finance Company gained 49 cedis at 4,050 cedis.

Unilever was three cedis richer at 14,058 cedis and Mechanical Lloyd one cedi at 701 cedis.

Cocoa Processing Company (CPC) and British America Tobacco (BAT) lost a cedi each at 630 cedis and 5,500 cedis, respectively. Market capitalisation decreased at 12,753.76 billion cedis from a high of 12,817.85 billion cedis at the previous close on Wednesday.

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

ABL 552

AGC 28,650 ALW 4,000

BAT 5,500 -1 CFAO 75 CMLT 550

CPC 630 -1 EIC 10,500 FML 3,800 GBL 1,460

GCB 8,615 +15

GGL 5,670 +4

HFC 4,050 +49 MGL 275 MLC 701 +1

MOGL 35,005

PAF 740 PBC 1,300 PZ 2,700

SCB 67,001 +1

SPPC 390 SSB 20,000 -1,000 SWL 288 TBL 9,750 UNIL 14,058 +3