Business News of Friday, 24 February 2006

Source: GNA

All-Share index slips again

Accra, Feb. 24, GNA - The main stock index slipped in dull trading on Friday with only one equity making a move, a one-cedi loss by CFAO. The GSE All-Share Index slipped by 0.09 points to close at 4,729.98 points from 4,730.07 points on Thursday.

Change for the year remained at -0.82 per cent. Traded shares were a mere 18,600 from 133,000 on Thursday while market capitalisation went down to 91,844.89 billion cedis from 91,845.11 billion cedis.

On the broader market, there was only one price change, a one-cedi loss by CFAO at 399 cedis.

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

ABL 1,150 AGA 300,000 AADs 3,000 ALW 5,800 BAT 3,049 BOPP 5,500 CAL 1,450

CFAO 399 -1

CLYD 1,000 CMLT 1,700 CPC 600 EIC 6,859 FML 15,800 GCB 6,150 GGBL 8,550 GWEB 550 HFC 6,000 MLC 2,500 MOGL 54,000 PAF 800 PBC 2,800 PZ 6,501 SCB 130,000 SPL 570 SPPC 390 SG-SSB 7,000 SWL 290 TBL 27,000 UNIL 15,400 24 Feb. 06