Business News of Friday, 22 April 2005

Source: GNA

Bourse ends flat for second successive trading

Accra, April 22, GNA - The Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) ended flat for the second successive trading on Friday, as the influence of the bears continued to dominate.

The GSE All-Share Index, the benchmark measure, remained at 6,304.55 points while change for the year also marked time at -7.27 points.

Shares traded were virtually unchanged at 85,500 from 84,800 on Wednesday.

Market capitalisation closed the same at 96,257.11 billion cedis.

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

ABL 1,480 AGA 300,000 AADs 3,000 ALW 6,252 BAT 4,500 BOPP 7,000 CAL 3,400 CFAO 275 CLYD 1,300 CMLT 1,400 CPC 800 EIC 7,500 FML 18,000

GBL 1,600 GCB 12,500 GGL 12,500 HFC 7,000 MGL 275 MLC 2,700

MOGL 39,010

PAF 800 PBC 3,300 PZ 5,800 SCB 160,000 SPL 740 SPPC 390

SG-SSB 25,000

SWL 290 TBL 27,900

UNIL 17,000