Business News of Tuesday, 28 March 2006

Source: GNA

CAL Bank continues to rise

Accra, March 28, GNA -The Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) All-Share Index went up by 1.17 points to close at 4,762.33 points from 4,761.16 points on Monday. The bourse continues its steady rise buoyed by impressive performance by CAL Bank.

Change in year to date is now -0.14 per cent. On the broader market, only CAL went up by 20 cedis at 1,900 cedis. Volume of shares traded ended at 81,800 shares with 61,100 of CAL shares changing hands. Market capitalisation was up marginally at 91,930.72 billion cedis compared to 91,927.62 billion cedis on Monday.

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

ABL 1,150

AGA 300,000

ALW 6,120

BAT 3,049

BOPP 5,500

CAL 1,900 +20

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