Business News of Wednesday, 30 January 2008

Source: GNA

Brisk trading on Ghanaian bourse

Accra, Jan. 30, GNA - There was brisk trading at the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) on Wednesday when 1,520,000 shares of Ayrton Drug Manufacturing Limited ((AYRTN) changed hands out of the total of 1,681,600 shares that were traded.

The GSE All-Share Index, main market indicator, inched up by 1.87 points to close trading at 6,718.62 points on the gains of five equities led by SIC Insurance Company Limited (SIC). Change year to date now stands at 1.80 per cent.

On the broader market SIC gained GH=A2 0.0045 to close at GH=A2 0.3300; Guinness Ghana Breweries Limited (GGBL) went up by GH=A2 0.0006 at GH=A2 1.2340; Ghana Commercial Bank (GCB) was better by GH=A2 0.0004 at GH=A2 1.0055; Ecobank Ghana Limited was richer by GH=A2 0.0003 at GH=A2 2.1747 while Cal Bank Limited (CAL) gained GH=A2 0.0002 to close at GH=A2 0.5057.

Market capitalisation went up to GH=A2 12,512.79 million from GH=A2 12,511.63 million on Tuesday.

The following are the closing prices of equities in Ghana 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 0.7100 Ayrton Drug Man. Ltd. AYRTN 0.1000 Benso Oil Palm Plantation BOPP 0.4800

Cal Bank Limited CAL 0.5057 + 0.0002

CFAO Ghana Limited CFAO 0.0350 Clydestone Ghana Ltd CLYD 0.0800 Camelot Ghana Limited CMLT 0.1700 Cocoa Processing Com Ltd CPC 0.0530

Ecobank Ghana Ltd EBG 2.1747 + 0.0003

Enterprise Insurance Co. Ltd EIC 1.4352 Ecobank Transnational Inc. ETI 1.2815 Fan Milk Limited FML 2.6628

Ghana Commercial Bank Ltd GCB 1.0055 + 0.0004 Guinness Ghana Breweries Ltd GGBL 1.2340 + 0.0006 Ghana Oil Company GOIL 0.3100 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 0.8382 Standard Chart. Bank Gh.Ltd SCB 26.6001 SIC Insurance Company Limited SIC 0.3300 +0.0045

Starwin Products Limited SPL 0.0550 Super Paper Products Co. Ltd SPPC 0.0330 SG-SSB Limited SG-SSB 1.3050 Sam Woode Limited SWL 0.0265 Trust Bank Ltd (Gambia) TBL 1.3250 TOTAL Petroleum Ghana Ltd TOTAL 5.4954 Transaction Solutions Gh.Ltd TRANSOL 0.1200 Unilever Ghana Ltd UNIL 2.1203 AngloGold Ashanti Depository Shares AADS 0.3450