Business News of Monday, 23 July 2007

Source: GNA

GSE begins week in positive territory

Accra, July 23, GNA - The Ghana Stock Exchange began the week in positive territory with the All-Share Index, the benchmark gauge, inching up by 0.3 points to close the day at 5,359.25 points from 5,358.95 points.

Total shares that changed hands began the week at 533,100 with CAL Bank selling 446,300 shares while change for the year was 7.06 per cent. There were five price changes, all positive.

Ecobank Ghana Limited gained 0.0001 GH cedis at 1.4811 cedis, Enterprise Insurance was also 0.0001 GH cedis better at 1.0501 GH cedis, Ghana Commercial Bank gained 0.0005 GH cedis better at 0.6845 GH cedis, SG-SSB made 0.0005 GH cedis at 0.8910 GH cedis and Standard Chartered Bank also gained 0.0005 GH cedis at 18.0630 GH cedis. Market capitalization began the week at 11,514.33 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 0.3200

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 +0.0001

Enterprise Insurance Co. Ltd EIC 1.0501 +0.0001

Ecobank Transnational Inc. ETI 1.1650

Fan Milk Limited FML 1.9620

Ghana Commercial Bank Ltd GCB 0.6845 +0.0005

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 18.0630 +0.0005

Starwin Products Limited SPL 0.0550

Super Paper Products Co. Ltd SPPC 0.0203

SG-SSB Limited SG-SSB 0.8910 +0.0005

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 1.9025

AngloGold Ashanti Depository Shares AADS 0.3430