Business News of Thursday, 7 November 2002

Source: gna

All Share Index plunges on Aluworks loss

The Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) All Share Index, the main market indicator, slipped on Wednesday by 1.34 points on account of a whopping 100 cedis loss by Aluworks.

The bourse, which also saw four equities gaining, ended trading 1,339.66 points. The change year to date dropped at 40.14 per cent from 40.28 per cent. Market capitalisation dropped marginally at 4,939.44bn cedis from 4,942.08bn cedis.

There were five price changes four positive one negative. Aluworks lost 100 cedis at 3,700 cedis. Guinness Ghana Limited gained 10 cedis to close at 1000 cedis and the Social Security Bank gained three cedis to close at 3,957 cedis.

Uniliver and Fan Milk Limited gained two cedis and one cedi to close at 4,316 and 1,751 cedis respectively. Total shares traded dropped significantly at 51,200 shares from 191,100 shares at previous close.

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

ABL 380

AGC 18,807

ALW 3,700 -100

BAT 1,001

CFAO 67

EIC 4,526

FML 1,751 +1

GBL 500

GCB 3,510

GGL 1,000 +10

HFC 955

MGL 254

MLC 270

MOGL 19,721

PAF 750

PBC 390

PZ 2,000

SCB 28,000

SPPC 387

SSB 3,957 +3

SWL 285

UNIL 4,316 +2

CMLT 460