Business News of Friday, 21 October 2005

Source: GNA

Accra bourse slides on Starwin loss

Accra, Oct. 21, GNA - The Accra bourse slid in trading on Friday on the loss of Starwin Products Limited (SPL) despite marginal gains by three equities.

The GSE All-Share Index, the main stock index, went down by 0.29 points to close the week at 4,888.67 points.

Change for the year was still deep in the red at -28.09 per cent. Traded shares were mere 53,700 while market capitalisation stood at 92,177.08 billion cedis.

On the broader market, SPL lost 20 cedis at 580 cedis, Aluworks Limited was five cedis better at 4,505 cedis, Guinness Ghana Breweries Limited was three cedis better at 7,515 cedis and Fan Milk Limited inched up by one cedi at 15,626 cedis.

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

ABL 1,480 AGA 300,000 AADs 3,000

ALW 4,505 +5

BAT 3,090 BOPP 6,000 CAL 2,000 CFAO 405 CLYD 1,300 CMLT 1,800 CPC 600 EIC 7,005 FML 15,625 GCB 6,750

GGBL 7,515 +3

GWEB 550 HFC 7,000 MLC 2,500 MOGL 38,000 PAF 800 PBC 3,000 PZ 6,500 SCB 134,000

SPL 580 -20

SPPC 390 SG-SSB 7,865 SWL 290 TBL 27,900 UNIL 15,500