Business News of Friday, 29 September 2006

Source: GNA

Accra stock index slides again

Accra, Sept. 29, GNA - The main index of the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) slid again in trading on Friday following another loss by SG-SSB. The GSE All-Share Index, the main benchmark, went down by 4.82 points at 4,943.45 points from 4,948.27 points.

Change for the year slipped further to 3.66 per cent from 3.76 per cent.

Traded shares were slightly lower at 235,100 from 281,400 shares. On the broader market there were three price changes, two up and one down.

SG-SSB lost 200 cedis at 6,000 cedis, Aluworks gained six cedis at 7,010 cedis and Guinness Ghana Breweries Limited inched up by one cedi at 9,253 cedis.

Market Capitalisation was down at 111,397.88 billion cedis.

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

ABL 1,150 AGA 300,000

ALW 7,010 +6

AYTTN 895 BAT 3,160 BOPP 5,500 CAL 1,800 CFAO 399 CLYD 800 CMLT 1,700 CPC 538 EBG 12,121 EIC 8,430 ETI 22,705 FML 16,160 GCB 6,150

GGBL 9,253 +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 6,000 -200

SWL 265 TBL 27,000 TOTAL 54,006 UNIL 15,000