Business News of Wednesday, 18 July 2007

Source: GNA

GSE continues to rise

Accra, July 18, GNA - The GSE All-Share Index, the main stock gauge, continued to rise in trading at Accra bourse, but volumes remained unimpressive.

The index went up by6.37 points to close at 5,357.03 from Tuesday's close of 5,350.66 points.

Total shares that changed hands nearly doubled to 254,100 from 149,900 shares while change for the year rose to 7.01 per cent from 6.88 per cent.

There were four changes, all positive.

Fan Milk Limited was up by 0.0010 GH cedis at 1.9620 GH cedis, Ghana Commercial Bank was 0.0004 GH cedis better at 0.6830 GH cedis, Guinness Ghana Limited rose by 0.0010 GH cedis at 0.9590 GH cedis and SG-SSB made 0.0250 GH cedis at 0.8800 GH cedis. Market capitalization ended the day at 11,512.59 million GH cedis from 11,508.78 million GH cedis.