Business News of Monday, 9 July 2007

Source: GNA

GSE All-Share index edges up

Accra, July 9, GNA - Trading on the Ghana Stock Exchange opened the week on Monday in quiet trading with the GSE All-Share index, the benchmark measure, climbing up marginally.

The index gained 1.68 points at 5,324.60 points from 5,322.92 points with volumes that changed hands ending at 253,500 from Friday's close of 82,000 shares.

Change Year to date was also up at 6.36 per cent. There were four price changes, all positive.

CAL Bank gained 0.0044 GH cedis at 0.2780 GH cedis, Ecobank Ghana was 0.0010 GH cedis at 1.4550 GH cedis, SG-SSB was 0.0005 GH cedis better at 0.8260 cedis and Ghana Commercial Bank was better by 0.0005 GH cedis at 0.6815 GH cedis.

Market capitalization ended the session at 11,492.52 million cedis from 11,491.52 million GH cedis on Friday.

The following are the prices of equities in cedis:

Equities Full Name Share Code Closing Price in GH cedis

Accra Brewery Ltd ABL 0.1150

Anglo Gold Ashanti AGA 30.000

Aluworks Limited ALW 0.7400

Ayrton Drug manufacturing Ltd AYRTN 0.0976

British American Tobacco Ltd BAT 0.4266

Benso Oil Palm Plantation BOPP 0.5000

Cal Bank Limited CAL 0.2780 +0.0044

CFAO Ghana Limited CFAO 0.0350

Clydestone Ghana Ltd CLYD .08000

Camelot Ghana Limited CMLT 0.1700

Cocoa Processing Company Ltd CPC 0.0538

Ecobank Ghana Ltd EBG 1.4550 +0.0010

Enterprise Insurance Co. Ltd EIC 0.9905

Ecobank Transnational Inc. ETI 1.1650

Fan Milk Limited FML 1.9607

Ghana Commercial Bank Ltd GCB 0.6815 +0.0005

Guinness Ghana Breweries Ltd GGBL 0.9562 +0.0002

Golden Web Ltd GWEB 0.0550

HFC Bank Ltd HFC 0.5400

Mecahnical Llyod Co. Ltd MLC 0.2100

Pioneer Kitchenware Ltd PKL 0.0800

Produce Buying Company PBC 0.2600

PZ Cussons Ghana Ltd PZ 0.7201

Standard Chartered Bank Gh. Ltd SCB 18.0616

Starwin Products Limited SPL 0.0550

Super Paper Products Co. Ltd SPPC 0.0203

SG-SSB Limited SG-SSB 0.8260 +0.0005

Sam Woode Limited SWL 0.0265

Trust Bank Ltd (Gambia) TBL 1.3250

TOTAL Petroleum Ghana Ltd TOTAL 5.4450

Transaction Solutions (Ghana)Ltd TRANSOL 0.1200

Unilever Ghana Ltd UNIL 1.9020

AngloGold Ashanti Depository Shares AADS 0.3420