Business News of Thursday, 1 December 2005

Source: GNA

Aluworks loses despite massive sale of shares

Accra, Dec. 1, GNA - Aluworks sold a huge two million shares in trading on Thursday but registered the solitary loss as the Accra bourse continued to slide.

The GSE All-Share Index, the main market index, lost 0.14 points at 4,792.96 points.

Change for the year remained at -29.50 per cent.

Aluworks lost nine cedis at 5,000 cedis.

Shares that changed hands jumped to 2,014,200 with Aluworks selling 2,014,200 and four others selling the rest.

Market capitalisation was lower at 91,920.54 from 91,920.91 billion cedis from 3,393.18 million issued shares.

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

ABL 1,480 AGA 300,000 AADs 3,000 ALW 5,000 -9 BAT 3,050 BOPP 6,000 CAL 1,800 CFAO 405 CLYD 1,000 CMLT 1,700 CPC 600 EIC 6,851 FML 15,800 GCB 6,747 GGBL 7,720 GWEB 550 HFC 6,000 MLC 2,500 MOGL 38,000 PAF 800 PBC 3,000 PZ 6,500 SCB 130,000 SPL 580 SPPC 390 SG-SSB 7,200 SWL 290 TBL 27,900 UNIL 15,500

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