Business News of Monday, 27 March 2006

Source: GNA

CAL Bank continues to rise

Accra, March 27, GNA -The Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) All-Share Index went up by 0.55 points to close at 4,761.16 points from Friday's close of 4,760.61 points.

The bourse continues its steady rise buoyed by impressive performance by Aluworks and CAL Bank. 0 Change in year to date is now -0.16 per cent.

On the broader market, there were two price changes. Aluworks made 20 cedis to close at 6,120 cedis while CAL went up by four cedis at 1,880 cedis.

Volume of shares traded ended at 58,600 shares. Market capitalisation was up marginally at 91,927.62 billion cedis compared to 91,926.16 billion cedis on Friday.

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

ABL 1,150 AGA 300,000 ALW 6,120 +20 BAT 3,049 BOPP 5,500

CAL 1,880 +4

CFAO 399 CLYD 1,000 CMLT 1,700 CPC 600 EIC 6,868 FML 15,800 GCB 6,150 GGBL 8,565 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