Business News of Wednesday, 3 August 2005

Source: GNA

GSE index in marginal gain

Accra, Aug. 3, GNA - The Ghana Stock Exchange made a slight recovery on Friday with the GSE All-Share Index, the main market indicator, going up a marginal 1.08 points to close at 4,884.37 points. Change for the year-to-date is still in the red standing at -28.16 per cent.

There were no losers. The only gainer during the session was SG-SSB, which went up by 20 cedis to close at 7,550 cedis. Shares traded were 226,100 compared to 89,000 on Thursday. Market capitalisation was 91,875.92 billion cedis.

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 2,200

CFAO 386 CLYD 1,300 CMLT 1,800 CPC 608 EIC 5,000 FML 15,002 GCB 7,500 GGBL 6,000 HFC 7,000 MLC 2,500

MOGL 38,000

PAF 800 PBC 3,000 PZ 6,401 SCB 134,000 SPL 650 SPPC 390

SG-SSB 7,550 +20

SWL 290 TBL 27,900 UNIL 16,500