Business News of Wednesday, 27 September 2006

Source: GNA

Accra stock index inches up

Accra, Sept. 27, GNA - The Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) continued to have quiet trading sessions with low volumes. Only 37,100 shares changed hands on Wednesday from Tuesday's 46,400 shares.

The GSE All-Share Index, the main benchmark, rose by 0.18 points at 4,961.42 points from 4,961.24 points.

Change for the year remained at 4.03 per cent. On the broader market there were three price changes, all positive. Aryton Drugs was four cedis better at 895 cedis; Guinness Ghana Breweries Limited gained one cedi at 9,252 cedis and TOTAL rose by one cedi at 54,006 cedis.

Market capitalisation stood at 111,502.65 cedis from 111,501.63 billion cedis.

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

ABL 1,150 AGA 300,000 ALW 7,004 AYTTN 895 +4 BAT 3,160 BOPP 5,500 CAL 1,800 CFAO 399 CLYD 800 CMLT 1,700 CPC 538 EBG 12,120 EIC 8,426 ETI 22,705 FML 16,160 GCB 6,150 GGBL 9,252 +1 GWEB 550 HFC 5,400 MLC 2,500 PAF 800 PBC 2,800 PZ 6,611 SCB 150,001 SPL 550 SPPC 390 SG-SSB 6,740 SWL 265 TBL 27,000 TOTAL 54,006 +1 UNIL 15,000