Business News of Monday, 28 February 2005

Source: GNA

GSE continues to slide

Accra, Feb. 28, GNA - The main benchmark of the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) continued to slide in trading on Monday as the bourse continues to struggle to find its robust form.

Another significant loss of Aluworks Limited brought the GSE All-Share Index down by 3.09 points at 6,737.21 points from Friday's close of 6,740.30 points. Change for the year slipped further at -0.90 per cent from -0.86 per cent on Friday. Shares traded closed better at 346,800 from 201,100 on Friday. Aluworks, the only loser on the day, sank by 250 cedis at 6,250 cedis.

There were two price gains - Camelot went up by 90 cedis at 1,290 cedis and Patterson Zochonis was 50 cedis better 5,400 cedis. Market capitalisation closed lower at 97,448.40 billion cedis from 97,456.83 billion cedis on Friday.

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

 ABL   1,480 AGA  300,000 AADs    3,000 ALW   6,250 -250 BAT   4,500 BOPP  7,500 CAL   3,400 CFAO   255 CLYD    1,300 CMLT   1,290 +90 CPC   1,000 EIC     8,000 FML   18,000 GBL   1,600 GCB    13,010 GGL    12,500 HFC   9,500 MGL    275 MLC   3,000 MOGL    9,010 PAF    800 PBC   3,600 PZ   5,400 +50 SCB  165,000 SPL    750 SPPC   390 SG-SSB  27,000 SWL    290 TBL  31,000 UNIL   20,000