Business News of Wednesday, 15 November 2006

Source: GNA

Accra bourse slips on Mechanical Lloyd loss

Accra, Nov. 15, GNA - The main index of the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) slipped in trading on Wednesday on the loss of Mechanical Lloyd. The GSE All-Share Index ended the day lower by 1.55 points at 4,988.87 points from Tuesday's close to 4,990.42 points. Change to date ended at 4.61 per cent.

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

Mechanical Lloyd lost 200 cedis at 2,100 cedis, but ECOBANK Ghana gained five cedis at 13,105 cedis and Fan Milk Limited inched up by one cedi at 17,001 cedis.

Total shares traded were down at 40,800 shares from 190,000 shares and market capitalisation also ended down at 112,184.31 billion cedis from 112,193.50 billion cedis.

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

ABL 1,150 AGA 300,000 ALW 7,031 ARYTN 976 BAT 3,200 BOPP 5,500 CAL 1,800 CFAO 399 CLYD 800 CMLT 1,700 CPC 538

EBG 13,105 +5

EIC 8,805 ETI 22,706 FML 17,001 +1 GCB 6,150 GGBL 9,253 GWEB 550 HFC 5,400 MLC 2,100 -200 PKL 800 PBC 2,800 PZ 6,650 SCB 155,005 SPL 550 SPPC 300 SG-SSB 6,000 SWL 265 TBL 27,000 TOTAL 54,015 UNIL 15,000 AADS 3,100