Business News of Thursday, 20 August 2009

Source: GNA

All-Share Index rises

Accra, Aug. 20, GNA - The benchmark GSE All-Share index rose in trading on Thursday gaining 10.06 points at 5,240.55 points. This brought the change for the year to date to 49.76 per cent. Traded volumes rose to 234,700 from Wednesday's 218,900 while market capitalisation also appreciated to GH¢15,147.08 million from GH¢15,139.75 million.

There were four price changes, two either way. Ecobank Ghana gained GH¢0.04 to close GH¢2.55 and Ghana Commercial Bank gained GH¢0.01 at GH¢0.77. Enterprise Insurance Company (EIC) lost GH¢0.05 at GH¢2.50 while GOIL again also lost GH¢0.01 at GH¢0.16.

The following are the closing prices of equities in Ghana cedis

Equities Share Code Closing Price in GH cedis

Accra Brewery Ltd ABL 0.12

Anglo Gold Ashanti AGA 30.00

Aluworks Limited ALW 0.50

Ayrton Drug Man. Ltd. AYRTN 0.15

Benso Oil Palm Plantation BOPP 0.60

Cal Bank Limited CAL 0.25

CFAO Ghana Limited CFAO 0.05

Clydestone Ghana Ltd CLYD 0.08

Camelot Ghana Limited CMLT 0.16

Cocoa Processing Com Ltd CPC 0.05

Ecobank Ghana Ltd EBG 2.55 +0.04

Enterprise Insurance Co. Ltd EIC 2.50 -0.05

Ecobank Transnational Inc. ETI 0.13

Fan Milk Limited FML 4.03

Ghana Commercial Bank Ltd GCB 0.77 +0.01

Guinness Ghana Breweries Ltd GGBL 1.26

Ghana Oil Company GOIL 0.16 -0.01

Golden Star Resources GSR 3.10

Golden Web Ltd GWEB 0.05

HFC Bank Ltd HFC 0.62

Mechanical Lloyd Co. Ltd MLC 0.20

Pioneer Kitchenware Ltd PKL 0.07

Produce Buying Company PBC 0.20

PZ Cussons Ghana Ltd PZ 1.10

Standard Chart. Bank Gh. Ltd SCB 29.00

SIC Insurance Company Limited SIC 0.22

Starwin Products Limited SPL 0.05

Super Paper Products Co. Ltd SPPC 0.10

SG-SSB Limited SG-SSB 0.35

Sam Woode Limited SWL 0.03

Trust Bank Ltd (Gambia) TBL 1.33

TOTAL Petroleum Ghana Ltd TOTAL 7.50

Transaction Solutions Gh. Ltd TRANSOL 0.11

Unilever Ghana Ltd UNIL 3.42

UT Financial Services UT 0.18

AngloGold Ashanti Depository Shares AADS 0.31