Business News of Thursday, 25 August 2005

Source: GNA

GSE in moderate gain

Accra, Aug. 25, GNA - The GSE All-Share Index, the main market indicator, made a moderate gain in trading on Thursday in another quiet trading.

The index ended trading up by 0.06 points at 4,837.62 points from 4,837.56 points on Wednesday.

Change for the year-to-date remained unchanged at -28.84 per cent. There was only one price change, a one-cedi gain by SG-SSB at 7,861 cedis.

Shares that changed hands climbed to 78,100 from at 37,700 on Wednesday.

Market capitalisation was up at 91,990.55 billion cedis from at 91,990.43 billion cedis from 3,383.22 million issued shares.

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

ABL 1,480 AGA 300,000 AADs 3,000 ALW 5,000 BAT 3,500 BOPP 6,000 CAL 2,000 CFAO 391 CLYD 1,300 CMLT 1,800 CPC 600 EIC 5,006 FML 15,031 GCB 6,900 GGBL 6,030 HFC 7,000 MLC 2,500 MOGL 38,010 PAF 800 PBC 3,000 PZ 6,405 SCB 134,000 SPL 600 SPPC 390 SG-SSB 7,861 +1 SWL 290 TBL 27,900 UNIL 16,500