Business News of Wednesday, 27 December 2006

Source: GNA

Accra bourse opens on quiet note

Accra, Dec. 27, GNA - The Accra bourse opened post-Christmas trading on a quiet note with only one equity making a move on low volumes.

The GSE All-Share Index, the main market index, inched up by 0.06 points at 5,005.97 points while total volumes traded were up at 163,200 from 105,400 on Friday.

Change for the year to date remained unchanged at 4.97 per cent. ECOBANK Ghana Limited was once again the only price gainer, making three cedis to close at 13,517 cedis.

Market capitalisation ended at 112,415.68 billion cedis from 112,415.36 billion cedis on Friday.

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

ABL 1,150 AGA 300,000 ALW 7,251 ARYTN 976 BAT 3,300 BOPP 5,500 CAL 2,205 CFAO 399 CLYD 800 CMLT 1,700 CPC 538

EBG 13,517 +3

EIC 8,818 ETI 22,700 FML 18,000 GCB 6,150 GGBL 9,248 GWEB 550 HFC 5,400 MLC 2,100 PKL 800 PBC 2,600 PZ 6,650 SCB 158,000 SPL 550 SPPC 225 SG-SSB 6,000 SWL 265 TBL 26,500 TOTAL 54,020 UNIL 15,000 AADS 3,101 27 Dec. 06