Business News of Thursday, 30 November 2006

Source: GNA

Accra bourse slips again but sees huge sales

Accra, Nov. 30, GNA - Accra bourse slipped again in trading on Thursday, but saw one of its biggest sales of shares.

Six equities sold a total of 14.99 million shares with CAL accounting for 12.95 million shares. Cocoa Processing Company sold 2.02 million while Aluworks, ECOBANK Ghana, Ghana Commercial Bank and Guinness Ghana Breweries Limited accounted for the rest. The Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) All-Share Index, the main stock index, lost 0.02 points at 4,992.93 points from 4,992.95 points on Wednesday.

Change to date remained at 4.70 per cent.

On the broader market, there were three price changes, two down and one up.

ECOBANK Ghana was up by one cedi at 13,502 cedis and Aluworks gained one cedi at 7.251 cedis but Guinness Ghana Breweries dipped by two cedis at 9,248 cedis.

Market capitalisation slipped at 112,208.63 billion cedis from 112,208.76 billion cedis.

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

ABL 1,150 AGA 300,000

ALW 7,251 +1

ARYTN 976 BAT 3,250 BOPP 5,500 CAL 1,850 CFAO 399 CLYD 800 CMLT 1,700 CPC 538

EBG 13,502 +1

EIC 8,811 ETI 22,706 FML 17,008 GCB 6,150

GGBL 9,248 -2

GWEB 550 HFC 5,400 MLC 2,100 PKL 800 PBC 2,600 PZ 6,650 SCB 158,000 SPL 550 SPPC 280 SG-SSB 6,000 SWL 225 TBL 26,500 TOTAL 54,017 UNIL 15,000 AADS 3,101