Business News of Tuesday, 28 November 2006

Source: GNA

Accra bourse slips on Sam Wood loss

Accra, Nov. 28, GNA - Accra bourse slipped in mixed trading on Wednesday on the loss of Sam Woode Limited, although volumes traded continued to be high.

The Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) All-Share Index, the main stock index, lost 0.12 points at 4,992.98 points from 4,993.10 points on Tuesday.

Change to date remained at 4.70 per cent.

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

ECOBANK Ghana was up by one cedi at 13,501 cedis but Sam Woode Limited lost 40 cedis at 225 cedis.

Total shares traded ended lower at 602,900 with Supper Paper Products Limited selling 580,000 shares. Market capitalisation was also lower at 112,208.96 billion cedis from 112,209.67 billion cedis.

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

ABL 1,150 AGA 300,000 ALW 7,250 ARYTN 976 BAT 3,250 BOPP 5,500 CAL 1,850 CFAO 399 CLYD 800 CMLT 1,700 CPC 538

EBG 13,501 +1

EIC 8,811 ETI 22,706 FML 17,008 GCB 6,150 GGBL 9,250 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 -40

TBL 26,500 TOTAL 54,017 UNIL 15,000 AADS 3,101