Business News of Friday, 17 February 2006

Source: GNA

All-Share index takes a dip

Accra, Feb. 17, GNA - The Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) All-Share Index took a dip during Friday's trading going down by 2.78 points from 4,728.77 points to 4,725.99 points. Change in the year to date index was -0.90 per cent.

Four equities experienced price changes - two gainers and two decliners.

CAL Merchant Bank (CAL) shed off 100 cedis at 1,500 cedis while British America Tobacco (BAT) lost one cedi at 3,049 cedis. The gainers were Aluworks (ALW), which gained 39 cedis at 5,750 cedis and Guinness Ghana Breweries Limited (GGBL) that also went up by 40 cedis at 8,450 cedis. Traded shares were 268,800 with CAL selling 163,900 of its shares. Market Capitalisation was down at 91,834.32 billion cedis from 91,841.68 billion cedis on Thursday.

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

ABL 1,150 AGA 300,000 AADs 3,000

ALW 5,750 +39

BAT 3,049 -1

BOPP 5,500

CAL 1,500 -100

CFAO 400 CLYD 1,000 CMLT 1,700 CPC 600 EIC 6,859 FML 15,800 GCB 6,150

GGBL 8,450 +40 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 17 Feb. 06