Business News of Thursday, 8 February 2007

Source: GNA

GSE All-Share in another marginal gain

Accra, Feb. 8, GNA - The GSE All-Share Index, the benchmark index of the Accra bourse, on Thursday made another marginal gain of 0.17 points to close at 5,014.73 points in quiet trading. Traded volumes fell once more to 21,000 from 114,800 shares on Wednesday.

Change for the year to date remained fixed at 0.17 per cent. Market capitalization closed up marginally at 112,548.66 billion cedis from 112,547.56 billion cedis.

There were four positive price changes. Aluworks Limited gained one cedi at 7,262 cedis, Enterprise Insurance Company (EIC) was up by four cedis at 8,842 cedis, Fan Milk Ltd gained 34 cedis at 18,100 cedis and SG-SSB was two cedis better at 6,008 cedis.

The following are the prices of equities in cedis:

ABL 1,150 AGA 300,000

ALW 7,262 +1

AYRTN 976 BAT 3,300 BOPP 5,500 CAL 2,205 CFAO 399 CLYD 800 CMLT 1,700 CPC 538 EBG 13,575

EIC 8,842 +4

ETI 22,707

FML 18,100 +34

GCB 6,200 GGBL 9,013 GWEB 550 HFC 5,400 MLC 2,100 PKL 800 PBC 2,600 PZ 7,100 SCB 160,000 SPL 550 SPPC 225 SG-SSB 6,008 +8 SWL 265 TBL 13,250 TOTAL 54,100 TRANSOL 1,085 UNIL 15,000 AADS 3,250