Business News of Friday, 22 June 2007

Source: GNA

GSE All-Share index in big gain on back of impressive UNIL performance

Accra, June 22, GNA - The Ghana Stock Exchange benchmark, the GSE-All Share Index, made an impressive gain in trading on Friday on the back of an impressive Unilever (UNIL) performance.

The index closed higher by 36.2 points at 5,300.75 points from 5,264.55 points. Change for the year stands at 5.89 per cent. Shares that changed hands jumped to 1,024,100 from 87,500 with UNIL selling one million.

There were three positive price changes. UNIL gained 3,400 cedis at 19,000 cedis, ECOBANK Ghana Limited was 25 cedis better at 14,400 cedis and Guinness Ghana Breweries Limited gained one cedi at 9,533 cedis. Market capitalization ended the session at 114,775.05 billion cedis from 114,558.36 billion cedis.

The following are the prices of equities in cedis:

Equities Full Name Share Code Closing Price

Accra Brewery Ltd ABL 1,150

Anglo Gold Ashanti AGA 300,000

Aluworks Limited ALW 7,400

Ayrton Drug manufacturing Ltd AYRTN 976

British American Tobacco Ltd BAT 4,266

Benso Oil Palm Plantation BOPP 5,450

Cal Bank Limited CAL 2,646

CFAO Ghana Limited CFAO 350

Clydestone Ghana Ltd CLYD 800

Camelot Ghana Limited CMLT 1,700

Cocoa Processing Company Ltd CPC 538

Ecobank Ghana Ltd EBG 14,400 +25

Enterprise Insurance Co. Ltd EIC 9,545

Ecobank Transnational Inc. ETI 11,650

Fan Milk Limited FML 19,600

Ghana Commercial Bank Ltd GCB 6,808

Guinness Ghana Breweries Ltd GGBL 9,533 +1

Golden Web Ltd GWEB 550

HFC Bank Ltd HFC 5,400

Mecahnical Llyod Co. Ltd MLC 2,100

Pioneer Kitchenware Ltd PKL 800

Produce Buying Company PBC 2,600

PZ Cussons Ghana Ltd PZ 7,201

Standard Chartered Bank Gh. Ltd SCB 180,615

Starwin Products Limited SPL 550

Super Paper Products Co. Ltd SPPC 203

SG-SSB Limited SG-SSB 7,520

Sam Woode Limited SWL 265

Trust Bank Ltd (Gambia) TBL 13,250

TOTAL Petroleum Ghana Ltd TOTAL 54,550

Transaction Solutions (Ghana)Ltd TRANSOL 1,200

Unilever Ghana Ltd UNIL 19,000 +3,400

AngloGold Ashanti Depository Shares AADS 3,420