Business News of Thursday, 6 September 2001

Source: GNA

GSE All-Share Index in Slight Gain

The Pioneer Aluminium Factory (PAF) gained 45 cedis at Wednesday's mid-week trading session to push the GSE-All Share Index, the key measure of the Accra bourse, a modest 0.41 points to finish up at 953.22 points from the previous close of 952.81 points on Monday.

The market was, however, dull as investors continued to shy away from activities on the bourse. The 12 equities, which sold shares could only manage 22,700 shares compared to 27,700 shares on Monday.

The only price change was in the name of PAF.

It was up 45 cedis to close the session at 800 cedis.

The total market capitalisation was up marginally at 3,858.87 billion cedis from 3,858.09 billion cedis on Monday.