Business News of Thursday, 5 June 2008

Source: GNA

GSE enjoys another impressive

Accra, June 5, GNA - The Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) All-Share Index, the benchmark measure of the Accra bourse, had another impressive run on Thursday when it went up by 15.78 points from 9,900.96 points on Wednesday to 9,916.74.

Change for the year to date now stands at 50.26 per cent. Traded volumes closed the session lower at 201,900 shares down from 1,204,100 shares during the previous session.

The prices of five equities appreciated with Fan Milk Limited (FML) leading the pack with GH¢ 0.16 gain to close at GH¢ 3.50. SIC Insurance (SIC) was GH¢ 0.02 richer at GH¢ 0.61. Three of the equities; Enterprise Insurance Company Limited (EIC), Ghana Oil Company Limited (GOIL) and Unilever Ghana Limited (UNIL) gained GH¢ 0.01 each to close trading at GH¢ 2.07; GH¢ 0.28 and GH¢ 2.47, in that order.

Market capitalisation ended the session up at GH¢15,273.19 million compared to GH¢15,244.75 million on Wednesday.

The following are the closing prices of equities in Ghana cedis

Equities Share Code Closing Price in GH cedis

Accra Brewery Ltd ABL 0.115 Anglo Gold Ashanti AGA 30.00 Aluworks Limited ALW 0.68 Ayrton Drug Man. Ltd. AYRTN 0.16 Benso Oil Palm Plantation BOPP 1.29 Cal Bank Limited CAL 0.68 CFAO Ghana Limited CFAO 0.04 Clydestone Ghana Ltd CLYD 0.08 Camelot Ghana Limited CMLT 0.16 Cocoa Processing Com Ltd CPC 0.053 Ecobank Ghana Ltd EBG 3.34

Enterprise Insurance Co. Ltd EIC 2.07 + 0.01

Ecobank Transnational Inc. ETI 2.32 Fan Milk Limited FML 3.50 + 0.16 Ghana Commercial Bank Ltd GCB 1.38

Guinness Ghana Breweries Ltd GGBL 2.00

Ghana Oil Company GOIL 0.28 + 0.01

Golden Star Resources GSR 3.10 Golden Web Ltd GWEB 0.055 HFC Bank Ltd HFC 0.62 Mechanical Llyod Co. Ltd MLC 0.21 Pioneer Kitchenware Ltd PKL 0.07 Produce Buying Company PBC 0.22 PZ Cussons Ghana Ltd PZ 0.88

Standard Chart. Bank Gh.Ltd SCB 27.14

SIC Insurance Company Limited SIC 0.61 + 0.02

Starwin Products Limited SPL 0.05 Super Paper Products Co. Ltd SPPC 0.033 SG-SSB Limited SG-SSB 1.35 Sam Woode Limited SWL 0.0265 Trust Bank Ltd (Gambia) TBL 1.33 TOTAL Petroleum Ghana Ltd TOTAL 6.00 Transaction Solutions Gh.Ltd TRANSOL 0.11

Unilever Ghana Ltd UNIL 2.47 + 0.01 AngloGold Ashanti Depository Shares AADS 0.345 5 June 08