Business News of Thursday, 11 May 2006

Source: GNA

GSE Index goes up in quiet trading

Accra, May 11, GNA - Trading on the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) was quiet on Thursday with the main index inching up slightly. The GSE All-Share Index, the main stock measure, gained a marginal 0.33 points at 4,789.42 points from 4,789.09 points on Wednesday and change year to date was 0.43 per cent.

Total shares traded were 107,000.

On the broader market there were three positive price changes. Aluworks gained nine cedis at 6,529 cedis; Ghana Commercial Bank was up two cedis at 6,310 cedis and Guinness Ghana Brewery Limited was up by one cedi at 8,701 cedis.

Market capitalisation was up at 92,453.44 billion cedis.

The following are the last prices of the listed equities in cedis:

ABL 1,150 AGA 300,000

ALW 6,529 +9

BAT 3,000 BOPP 5,500 CAL 1,942 CFAO 399 CLYD 1,000 CMLT 1,700 CPC 600 EIC 7,250 FML 15,902

GCB 6,310 +2

GGBL 8,701 +1

GWEB 550 HFC 6,000 MLC 2,500 MOGL 54,000 PAF 800 PBC 2,800 PZ 6,510 SCB 130,000 SPL 550 SPPC 390 SG-SSB 7,000 SWL 290 TBL 27,000 UNIL 15,400