Business News of Wednesday, 4 April 2007

Source: GNA

GSE All-Share index rises

Accra, April 4, GNA - The GSE All-Share index, the benchmark measure, rose slightly in dull trading on Wednesday. The index closed at 5,095.87 points from 5,095.49 points on Tuesday.

Shares that changed hands climbed to 329,400 from 70,600 while change for the year was better at 1.79 per cent.

On the broader market, there were five price changes, all positive.

Total Petroleum was one cedi better at 54,256 cedis, Ghana Commercial Bank jumped up 15 cedis at 6,715 cedis, Ecobank made four cedis at 14,111 cedis, CAL Bank gained nine cedis at 2,400 cedis and Guinness Ghana Breweries Limited inched up by one cedi at 9,356 cedis. Market capitalization closed higher at 113,035.25 billion cedis from 113,032.96 billion cedis.

The following are the prices of equities in cedis:

ABL 1,150 AGA 300,000 ALW 7,463 AYRTN 976 BAT 3,300 BOPP 5,500

CAL 2,400 +9

CFAO 350 CLYD 800 CMLT 1,700 CPC 538

EBG 14,110 +4

EIC 8,905 +2

ETI 11,350 FML 19,101

GCB 6,750 +

GGBL 9,356 +1

GWEB 550 HFC 5,400 MLC 2,100 PKL 800 PBC 2,600 PZ 7,106 SCB 168,016 SPL 550 SPPC 225 SG-SSB 6,325 SWL 265 TBL 13,250

TOTAL 54,256 +1

TRANSOL 1,200 UNIL 15,000 AADS 3,310 4 April 07