Business News of Monday, 29 August 2005

Source: GNA

GSE in moderate gain

Accra, Aug. 29, GNA - The GSE All-Share Index, the main market indicator, made a moderate gain in trading on Monday in another quiet trading.

The index ended trading up by 0.06 points at 4,838.15 points from 4,838.09 points.

The session also marked the formal trading in shares of Golden Web. 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 7,865 cedis.

Only 5,400 shares changed hands from 52,200 on Friday. Market capitalisation was up at 92,002.43 billion cedis from 91,991.81 billion cedis on Friday from 3,381.22 million 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 15,030 GCB 6,900 GGBL 6,035

GWEB 550 HFC 7,000 MLC 2,500 MOGL 38,011 PAF 800 PBC 3,000 PZ 6,405 SCB 134,000 SPL 600 SPPC 390 SG-SSB 7,865 +1 SWL 290 TBL 27,900 UNIL 16,500