Business News of Friday, 18 November 2005

Source: GNA

FML, ALW gains help sustain trading on Accra bourse

Accra, Nov. 18, GNA - The Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) made another slow rise on Friday with the GSE-All Share Index, the main market measure, going up by 0.07 points in dull trading.

The Index ended trading at 4,899.55 points from 4,899.48 points, while change for the year was -27.93 per cent.

Aluworks Limited (ALW) and Fan Milk Limited (FML) gained three cedis each at 5,008 cedis and 15,660 cedis, respectively. Aluworks sold 57,500 shares out of the 132,200 shares that changed hands.

Market capitalisation was better at 92,205.77 billion cedis from 3,393.18 issued shares.

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

ABL 1,480 AGA 300,000 AADs 3,000

ALW 5,008 +3

BAT 3,300 BOPP 6,000 CAL 2,000 CFAO 405 CLYD 1,000 CMLT 1,800 CPC 600 EIC 7,000

FML 15,660 +3

GCB 6,748 GGBL 7,656 GWEB 550 HFC 6,800 MLC 2,500 MOGL 38,000 PAF 800 PBC 3,000 PZ 6,500 SCB 134,000 SPL 580 SPPC 390 SG-SSB 7,865 SWL 290 TBL 27,900 UNIL 15,500