Business News of Thursday, 8 March 2007

Source: GNA

GSE All-Share index in marginal gain

Accra, March 8, GNA - The GSE All-Share Index, the benchmark index of the Accra bourse, made a marginal gain in another quiet session on Thursday that saw only 10,300 shares changing hands. The index went up by 0.55 points at 5,062.05 points from 5,061.50 points on Monday.

Shares that changed hands plunged to a mere 10,300 from 8,417,400 when there was a bulk sale in Transol.

Market capitalization closed at better at 112,832.47 billion cedis from 112,829.20 billion cedis on Monday.

There were four price changes, all positive.

Ayrton Limited recovered the one cedi it lost on Monday by closing at 976 cedis, ECOBANK Ghana was up by one cedi at 14,003 cedis, Ghana Commercial Bank gained 15 cedis at 6,140 cedis while SG-SSB Bank closed three cedis up at 6,124 cedis.

The following are the prices of equities in cedis:

ABL 1,150 AGA 300,000 ALW 7,458

AYRTN 976 +1

BAT 3,300 BOPP 5,500 CAL 2,119 CFAO 350 CLYD 800 CMLT 1,700 CPC 538

EBG 14,003 +1

EIC 8,881 ETI 11,350 FML 19,001

GCB 6,140 +15

GGBL 9,302 GWEB 550 HFC 5,400 MLC 2,100 PKL 800 PBC 2,600 PZ 7,105 SCB 168,000 SPL 550 SPPC 225 SG-SSB 6,124 +3 SWL 265 TBL 13,250 TOTAL 54,250 TRANSOL 1,200 UNIL 15,000 AADS 3,310