Business News of Tuesday, 9 August 2005

Source: GNA

GSE makes slight recovery

Accra, Aug. 9, GNA - The Ghana Stock Exchange made a slight recovery in another poor trading on Tuesday with the All-Share Index, the main market indicator, inching up by 0.46 points to 4,851.71 points. Change for the year-to-date ended at -28.64 per cent.

There were two price changes - both positive.

SG-SSB gained four cedis at 7,805 cedis and Guinness Ghana Breweries also gained four cedis at 6,005 cedis.

Shares traded were down to 45,900 from 115,100 shares on Monday. Market capitalisation was up at 92,027.69 billion cedis from 3,382.54 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 2,200 CFAO 386 CLYD 1,300 CMLT 1,800 CPC 600 EIC 5,000 FML 15,002 GCB 7,000

GGBL 6,005 +4

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 7,805 +4

SWL 290 TBL 27,900 UNIL 16,500