Business News of Saturday, 12 January 2002

Source: GNA

GSE All-Share Index marks time

The All-Share Index of the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) marked time again on Friday, the first trading session after several market indices made their first move of the year on Wednesday when two equities made gains

The Ghana Stock Exchange All-Share Index ended at 956.44 points and change for the year was unchanged at 0.05 per cent. There was no price change on Friday and market capitalization also stood still at 3,90498 billion cedis.

However, shares traded were up at 225,000 from 41,300 with Ghana

Commercial Bank selling 182,100 shares. Only six of the 22 listed companies sold shares.

The following are the closing prices of the equities in cedis:

ABL 320

AGC 18,800

ALW 4,300

BAT 627

CFAO 60

EIC 3,061

FML 950

GBL 1,000

GCB 1,570

GGL 901

HFC 952

MGL 241

MLC 145

MOGL 18,500

PAF 800

PBC 450

PZ 1,010

SCB 20,551

SPPC 341

SSB 2,200

UNIL 2,300

CMLT 430

The following is the summarized report on trading in Government of Ghana Bonds for January 8:

Secondary trading in GGILBs commenced on December 28, 2001. The total value of

GGILBs issued and listed at the commencement of trading is 1,003.72 billion cedis.

The total value of GGILBs issued and listed as at January 7, 2002 is 1,074.23 billion cedis. No trades were recorded on January 8. There were no offers or bids.