Business News of Thursday, 7 June 2007

Source: GNA

All-Share index in marginal gain

Accra, June 7, GNA - The GSE All-Share index, the main index of the Accra bourse, made a slow rise of 0.16 points on Thursday to close at 5,226.92 points.

Although four equities saw price appreciation during the session, traded volumes on the other hand were still low with only 26,000 shares changing hands.

Change Year to date now stands at 4.41 per cent. There were four positive price changes.

SG-SSB was up one cedi at 7,162 cedis, Fan Milk Limited gained one cedi at 19,551 cedis, Ecobank Ghana went up by five cedis at 14,346 cedis and Enterprise Insurance Company (EIC) was up by three cedi and 9,507 cedis respectively.

Market capitalization ended the session at 114,331.79 billion cedis.

The following are the prices of equities in cedis:

Equities Full Name Share Code Closing Price

Accra Brewery Ltd ABL 1,150

Anglo Gold Ashanti AGA 300,000

Aluworks Limited ALW 7,400

Ayrton Drug manufacturing Ltd AYRTN 976

British American Tobacco Ltd BAT 3,300

Benso Oil Palm Plantation BOPP 5,450

Cal Bank Limited CAL 2,622

CFAO Ghana Limited CFAO 350

Clydestone Ghana Ltd CLYD 800

Camelot Ghana Limited CMLT 1,700

Cocoa Processing Company Ltd CPC 538

Ecobank Ghana Ltd EBG 14,346 +5

Enterprise Insurance Co. Ltd EIC 9,510 +3

Ecobank Transnational Inc. ETI 11,600

Fan Milk Limited FML 19,551 +1

Ghana Commercial Bank Ltd GCB 6,807

Guinness Ghana Breweries Ltd GGBL 9,500

Golden Web Ltd GWEB 550

HFC Bank Ltd HFC 5,400

Mechanical Llyod Co. Ltd MLC 2,100

Pioneer Kitchenware Ltd PKL 800

Produce Buying Company PBC 2,600

PZ Cussons Ghana Ltd PZ 7,200

Standard Chartered Bank Gh. Ltd SCB 180,605

Starwin Products Limited SPL 550

Super Paper Products Co. Ltd SPPC 225

SG-SSB Limited SG-SSB 7,162 +1

Sam Woode Limited SWL 265

Trust Bank Ltd (Gambia) TBL 13,250

TOTAL Petroleum Ghana Ltd TOTAL 54,312

Transaction Solutions (Ghana)Ltd TRANSOL 1,200

Unilever Ghana Ltd UNIL 15,150

AngloGold Ashanti Depository Shares AADS 3,420