Business News of Thursday, 26 July 2007

Source: GNA

GSE begins continues slow upward march

Accra, July 26, GNA - The Ghana Stock Exchange continued its slow upward march with the All-Share Index, the benchmark gauge, gaining 0.25 points to close the day at 5,362.18 points from 5,361.93 points. Total shares that changed hands rose to 113,700 from 16,800 on Wednesday while change for the year was 7.11 per cent.

There were two price changes, both positive. Enterprise Insurance Company was 0.0005 GH cedis better at 1.0510 GH cedis while Ghana Commercial Bank gained 0.0009 GH cedis at 0.6860 GH cedis.

Market capitalization was GH 11,516.11 million cedis from GH 11,5154.95 million GH cedis.

The following are the prices of equities in cedis:

Equities Full Name Share Code Closing Price in GH cedis

Accra Brewery Ltd ABL 0.1150

Anglo Gold Ashanti AGA 30.000

Aluworks Limited ALW 0.7400

Ayrton Drug manufacturing Ltd AYRTN 0.0976

British American Tobacco Ltd BAT 0.4266

Benso Oil Palm Plantation BOPP 0.5000

Cal Bank Limited CAL 0.3202

CFAO Ghana Limited CFAO 0.0350

Clydestone Ghana Ltd CLYD 0.0800

Camelot Ghana Limited CMLT 0.1700

Cocoa Processing Company Ltd CPC 0.0530

Ecobank Ghana Ltd EBG 1.4811

Enterprise Insurance Co. Ltd EIC 1.0510 +0.0005

Ecobank Transnational Inc. ETI 1.1650

Fan Milk Limited FML 1.9650

Ghana Commercial Bank Ltd GCB 0.6860 +0.0009

Guinness Ghana Breweries Ltd GGBL 0.9596

Golden Web Ltd GWEB 0.0550

HFC Bank Ltd HFC 0.5400

Mechanical Llyod Co. Ltd MLC 0.2100

Pioneer Kitchenware Ltd PKL 0.0800

Produce Buying Company PBC 0.2600

PZ Cussons Ghana Ltd PZ 0.7205

Standard Chartered Bank Gh. Ltd SCB 18.0700

Starwin Products Limited SPL 0.0550

Super Paper Products Co. Ltd SPPC 0.0203

SG-SSB Limited SG-SSB 0.9000

Sam Woode Limited SWL 0.0265

Trust Bank Ltd (Gambia) TBL 1.3250

TOTAL Petroleum Ghana Ltd TOTAL 5.4455

Transaction Solutions (Ghana) Ltd TRANSOL 0.1200

Unilever Ghana Ltd UNIL 1.9026

AngloGold Ashanti Depository Shares AADS 0.3430