Business News of Tuesday, 14 February 2006

Source: GNA

GSE in drab session

Accra, Feb. 14, GNA - Trading on the Ghana Stock Exchange on Thursday recorded a drab session with no equity experiencing a price change with total shares traded fixing at 6,800 leaving the GSE All-Share Index closing unchanged.

The main market indicator closed at 4,728.77 points, the same as at the close of trading on Wednesday.

The change in the year to date in the Index was -0.84 per cent. Of all the 29 equities listed on the Exchange Guinness Ghana Breweries Limited (GGBL) registered the highest bid of 8,410 cedis, while the bids of Paterson Zachonis (PZ) and Aluworks were 6,501 cedis and 5,711 cedis, respectively.

Market capitalisation inched up slightly from 91,750.77 billion cedis to 91 841.68 billion cedis on the back of the 90.91 billion cedis Stanchart Preference Share, which was introduced on the market on Thursday.

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

ABL 1,150 AGA 300,000 AADs 3,000 ALW 5,711 BAT 3,050 BOPP 5,500 CAL 1,600 CFAO 400 CLYD 1,000 CMLT 1,700 CPC 600 EIC 6,859 FML 15,800 GCB 6,150 GGBL 8,410 GWEB 550 HFC 6,000 MLC 2,500 MOGL 54,000 PAF 800 PBC 2,800 PZ 6,501 SCB 130,000 SPL 570 SPPC 390 SG-SSB 7,000 SWL 290 TBL 27,000 UNIL 15,400