Business News of Wednesday, 13 June 2007

Source: GNA

GSE All-Share index in marginal gain

Accra, June 13, GNA - The Ghana Stock Exchange benchmark GSE-All Share Index closed at 5,238.99 points on Wednesday, merely inching up by 0.09 points from the previous close on Tuesday.

Trading volume on the broader market ended lower at 41,800 shares as against 78,500 shares registered on Tuesday.

Change Year to date now stands at 4.65 per cent. There were three positive price changes.

Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) gained four cedis to close at 180,610 cedis, SG-SSB went up by two cedis to close at 7,165 cedis and Guinness Ghana Brewery Limited was up one cedi at 9,521 cedis. Market capitalization ended the session at 114,404.71 billion cedis up marginally from the previous close of 114,403.62 billion cedis on Tuesday.

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 3,300

Benso Oil Palm Plantation BOPP 5,450

Cal Bank Limited CAL 640 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 14,362

Enterprise Insurance Co. Ltd EIC 9,515

Ecobank Transnational Inc. ETI 11,650

Fan Milk Limited FML 19,552

Ghana Commercial Bank Ltd GCB 6,807

Guinness Ghana Breweries Ltd GGBL 9,521 +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 7,200

Standard Chartered Bank Gh. Ltd SCB 80,610 +4

Starwin Products Limited SPL 550

Super Paper Products Co. Ltd SPPC 203

SG-SSB Limited SG-SSB 7,165 +2

Sam Woode Limited SWL 265

Trust Bank Ltd (Gambia) TBL 13,250

TOTAL Petroleum Ghana Ltd TOTAL 54,412

Transaction Solutions (Ghana)Ltd TRANSOL 1,200

Unilever Ghana Ltd UNIL 15,160 AngloGold Ashanti Depository Shares AADS 3,420 13 June 07