Business News of Thursday, 30 March 2006

Source: GNA

CAL Bank rise continues to push market index up

Accra, March 30, GNA - The share price of CAL Bank registered another gain on Thursday to push the All-Share Index up by 1.16 points. The market index closed the day's trading up at 4,763.48 points from 4,762.34 points backed by the continued recovery of CAL stocks. Volume of shares, however, remained almost flat at 37,200 from Wednesday's close of 37,600.

The change in the year to date was -0.12 per cent with market capitalisation moving up to 91,933.80 billion cedis from 91,930.77 billion cedis.

On the broader market, there were two price changes - one positive and one negative.

CAL Bank gained 20 cedis at 1,920 cedis while British-American Tobacco (BAT) lost one cedi at 3,048 cedis.

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

ABL 1,150 AGA 300,000 ALW 6,120

BAT 3,048 -1

BOPP 5,500

CAL 1,920 +20

CFAO 399 CLYD 1,000 CMLT 1,700 CPC 600 EIC 6,870 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