Business News of Wednesday, 17 January 2007

Source: GNA

GSE All-Share Index inches up

Accra, Jan. 17, GNA - The GSE All-Share Index, the benchmark index of the Accra bourse, on Wednesday went up 0.81 points on the strength of gains by three equities. The Index went up to 5,008.07 points from 5,007.26 points on Tuesday.

Transaction Solutions Ghana Limited gained 50 cedis to close trading at 1,050 cedis; while ECOBANK Ghana Limited and PZ Cussons Ghana Limited went up by five cedis and a cedi to close trading at 13,540 cedis and 6,996 cedis, respectively. Total shares traded were 108,100 shares with Produce Buying Company selling 80,000 of them.

Change year to date stands at 0.04 per cent.

Market capitalization closed higher at 112,508.37 billion cedis from 112,503.54 billion cedis at the previous session.

The following are the prices of equities in cedis:

ABL 1,150 AGA 300,000 ALW 7,251 AYRTN 976 BAT 3,300 BOPP 5,500 CAL 2,205 CFAO 399 CFAO 800 CMLT 1,700 CPC 538

EBG 13,540 5

EIC 8,821 ETI 22,700 FML 18,011 GCB 6,149 GGBL 9,000 GWEB 550 HFC 5,400 MLC 2,100 PKL 800 PBC 2,600 PZ 6,996 1 SCB 160,000 SPL 550 SPPC 225 SG-SSB 6,000 SWL 265 TBL 13,250 TOTAL 54,100 TRANSOL 1,050 50 17 Jan. 07