Business News of Wednesday, 17 August 2005

Source: GNA

GSE inches in quiet trading

Accra, Aug. 17, GNA - The Accra bourse inched up in quiet trading on Wednesday that saw two equities making gains.

The GSE All-Share Index, the main market indicator, was up by 0.13 points to end trading at 4,837.30 points from Tuesday's 4,837.17 points. Change for the year-to-date was unchanged at -28.85 per cent. There were two price changes, both up.

Enterprise Insurance Company was three cedis better at 5,005 cedis while Guinness Ghana Breweries Limited was up by two cedis at 6,017 cedis.

Shares that changed hands dropped to 254,700 from 373,800 on Tuesday.

Market capitalisation was up at 91,989.70 billion cedis from 91,989.29 billion cedis on Tuesday from 3,383.22 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 390 CLYD 1,300 CMLT 1,800 CPC 600 EIC 5,005 +3 FML 15,007 GCB 6,900 GGBL 6,017 +2 HFC 7,000 MLC 2,500 MOGL 38,002 PAF 800 PBC 3,000 PZ 6,401 SCB 134,000 SPL 650 SPPC 390 SG-SSB 7,850 SWL 290 TBL 27,900 UNIL 16,500