Business News of Saturday, 19 January 2002

Source: gna

GSE remains static as investors continue to shay away

The main indicators of the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) remained static once again on Friday as investors continued to shy away from the market.

The GSE All-Share Index, market capitalization and change for the year were unchanged in Friday's trading where only nine of the 22 listed equities sold shares. The Index, the main market indicator, which had changed only once since the year began, remained on 956.44 points. Change for the year was 0.05 points and market capitalisation remained at 3,904.98 billion cedis.

Total shares traded went down further from 95,000 on Wednesday to 64,800 shares with Unilever selling the highest, 35,100. The following are the closing prices of the equities in cedis:

ABL 320

AGC 18,800

ALW 4,300

BAT 627

CFAO 60

EIC 3,061

FML 950

GBL 1,000

GCB 1,570

GGL 901

HFC 952

MGL 241

MLC 145

MOGL 18,500

PAF 800

PBC 450

PZ 1,010

SCB 20,551

SPPC 341

SSB 2,200

UNIL 2,300

CMLT 430