Business News of Monday, 4 April 2005

Source: GNA

Bourse down again on BAT loss

Accra, April 4, GNA - The Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) was down again in trading on Monday following a 400-cedi loss by British American Tobacco (BAT), the only equity that moved.

BAT lost 400 cedis at 4,100 cedis in trading that saw CFAO selling about 1.368 million out of the 1.452 million shares that changed hands. The GSE All-Share Index, the main stock index, ended down by 10.13 points at 6,380.25 points from 6,390.38 points. Change for the year went deeper into the red at -6.15 per cent.

Market capitalisation was down at 96,473.98 billion cedis from 96,501.63 billion cedis from 3,663.51 million issued shares.

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

ABL 1,480 AGA 300,000 AADs 3,000 ALW 6,252

BAT 4,100 -400

BOPP 7,000 CAL 3,400 CFAO 275 CLYD 1,200 CMLT 1,400 CPC 800 EIC 8,000 FML 18,000 GBL 1,600 GCB 13,010 GGL 12,500 HFC 7,740 MGL 275 MLC 3,000

MOGL 39,010 PAF 800 PBC 3,300 PZ 5,750 SCB 160,000 SPL 750 SPPC 390 SG-SSB 25,000 SWL 290 TBL 27,900 UNIL 18,000