Business News of Thursday, 6 May 2010

Source: GNA

Accra bourse index up after gains in ETI, others

Accra, May 6, GNA - The GSE All-Share Index jumped 123.93 points to 6,833.61 points from 6,709.68 points after four equities made gains to pu= sh it up. This brings the gain so far this year to 22.63 percent. Traded volumes were stronger at 2.93 million shares valued at GH¢922,126.36. On the broader market, there were six price changes-four up and two down. Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI) was up GH¢0.01 at GH¢0.= 19, SG-SSB Bank added GH¢0.04 at GH¢0.60, Unilever Ghana Limited (UNIL) w= ent up GH¢0.03 at GH¢3.68 and Fan Milk Limited gained GH¢0.04 at GH¢7.15= .. Ecobank Ghana fell GH¢0.03 at GH¢3.50 and State Insurance Compan= y slipped GH¢0.01 at GH¢0.36. Market Capitalization closed the session at GH¢18,263.08 million up= from GH¢18,225.16 million on Friday.

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 0.49 Cal Bank Limited CAL 0.28 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 3.50 -0.03 Enterprise Insurance Co. Ltd EIC 1.62 Ecobank Transnational Inc. ETI 0.19 +0.01 Fan Milk Limited FML 7.15 +0.04 Ghana Commercial Bank Ltd GCB 1.13 Guinness Ghana Breweries Ltd GGBL 1.60 Ghana Oil Company GOIL 0.20

Golden Star Resources GSR 3.00 Golden Web Ltd GWEB 0.05 HFC Bank Ltd HFC 0.59 Mechanical Lloyd Co. Ltd MLC 0.18 Pioneer Kitchenware Ltd PKL 0.07 Produce Buying Company PBC 0.15 PZ Cussons Ghana Ltd PZC 1.10 StandardChart Bank Gh. Ltd SCB 40.01 SIC Insurance Company Limited SIC 0.36 -0.01 Starwin Products Limited SPL 0.05 SG-SSB Limited SG-SSB 0.60 +0.04 Sam Woode Limited SWL 0.03 Trust Bank Ltd (Gambia) TBL 1.33 TOTAL Petroleum Ghana Ltd TOTAL 7.17 Transaction Solutions Gh. Ltd TRANSOL 0.09 Unilever Ghana Ltd UNIL 3.68 +0.03 UT Financial Services UTF 0.20 AngloGold Ashanti Depository Shares AADS 0.33 6 May 10