Business News of Friday, 30 June 2006

Source: GNA

EIC pushes bourse up

Accra, June 30, GNA - The main stock index of the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) inched up on Friday on the strength of a gain by Enterprise Insurance Company (EIC).

The GSE All-Share Index, the main stock index, was up by 0.31 points at 4,833.33 points from 4,833.02 points while change for the year to date also went up at 1.35 per cent.

On the broader market, there was only one price change 96 a 142-cedi gain by EIC at 8,100 cedis.

Traded volumes were higher at 128,300 from 77,800 shares while market capitalisation was better at 95,578.30 billion cedis from 95,574.57 billion cedis.

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

ABL 1,150 AGA 300,000 ALW 6,740 BAT 3,160 BOPP 5,500 CAL 1,942 CFAO 399 CLYD 1,000 CMLT 1,700 CPC 600 EIC 8,100 +142 FML 15,935 GCB 6,312 GGBL 9,838 GWEB 550 HFC 5,400 MLC 2,500 MOGL 54,000 PAF 800 PBC 2,800 PZ 6,510 SCB 130,000 SPL 550 SPPC 390 SG-SSB 6,750 SWL 265 TBL 27,000 UNIL 15,400