Business News of Thursday, 11 October 2007

Source: GNA

Banking stocks maintain upward drive of bourse

Accra, Oct. 11, GNA - Banking stocks maintained the upward drive of the Accra bourse in trading on Thursday but high interest in Ayrton Drugs Manufacturing Limited saw more than 13.3 million shares changing hands.

The main index of the bourse inched up by 0.11 points at 5,708.88 points from 5.708.77 points while change for the year was 14.04 per cent.

Ayrton Drugs sold 13.28 million shares out of the 13.301 million that changed hands.

On the broader market, there were three price changes, all positive.

Ecobank went up by 0.0001 GH cedis at 1.6252 GH cedis, CAL Bank was 0.0002 GH cedis better at 0.3454 GH cedis and SG-SSB gained 0.0001 GH cedis at 1.0522 GH cedis.

Market capitalisation ended better at 11,770.12 million Ghana cedis from 11,770.06 million GH cedis.

The following are the prices of equities in cedis

Equities Full Name Share Code Closing Price in GH cedis

Accra Brewery Ltd ABL 0.1150

Anglo Gold Ashanti AGA 30.0000

Aluworks Limited ALW 0.7400 Ayrton Drug manufacturing Ltd AYRTN 0.0976 Benso Oil Palm Plantation BOPP 0.5000 Cal Bank Limited CAL 0.3454 +0.0002 CFAO Ghana Limited CFAO 0.0350 Clydestone Ghana Ltd CLYD 0.0800 Camelot Ghana Limited CMLT 0.1700 Cocoa Processing Company Ltd CPC 0.0530

Ecobank Ghana Ltd EBG 1.6252 +0.0001

Enterprise Insurance Co. Ltd EIC 1.2003 Ecobank Transnational Inc. ETI 1.1650 Fan Milk Limited FML 2.1120 Ghana Commercial Bank Ltd GCB 0.9001 Guinness Ghana Breweries Ltd GGBL 1.0700 Golden Web Ltd GWEB 0.0550 HFC Bank Ltd HFC 0.5400

Mechanical Llyod Co. Ltd MLC 0.2100 Pioneer Kitchenware Ltd PKL 0.0800 Produce Buying Company PBC 0.2400 PZ Cussons Ghana Ltd PZ 0.8150 Standard Chartered Bank Gh.Ltd SCB 22.5000 Starwin Products Limited SPL 0.0550 Super Paper Products Co. Ltd SPPC 0.0205

SG-SSB Limited SG-SSB 1.0522 +0.0001

Sam Woode Limited SWL 0.0265 Trust Bank Ltd (Gambia) TBL 1.3250 TOTAL Petroleum Ghana Ltd TOTAL 5.4853 Transaction Solutions Gh.Ltd TRANSOL 0.1200 Unilever Ghana Ltd UNIL 2.1000

AngloGold Ashanti Depository Shares AADS 0.3450