Business News of Tuesday, 14 March 2006

Source: GNA

Bourse ends marginally up

Accra, March 14, GNA - The Accra bourse ended marginally up in trading on Tuesday with volumes still yet to pick up. The GSE All-Share Index, main stock index, went up by 1.02 points at 4,740.83 points from 4,739.81 points while change for the year was -0.59 per cent. Market capitalisation ended at 91,873.72 billion cedis. Total shares traded ended at 403,200 Cocoa Products Company selling 351,400 shares.

There were four price changes, all positive. CAL Bank continued its recovery with a 15-cedi gain at 1,565 cedis while Enterprise Insurance Company (EIC) gained three cedis at 6,865 cedis. Guinness Ghana Breweries Limited was two cedis better at 8,565 while Aluworks gained one cedi at 6,001 cedis.

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

ABL 1,150

AGA 300,000

ALW 6,001 +1

BAT 3,049

BOPP 5,500

CAL 1,565 +15

CFAO 399

CLYD 1,000

CMLT 1,700

CPC 600

EIC 6,865 +3

FML 15,800

GCB 6,150

GGBL 8,565 +2

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