Business News of Wednesday, 18 January 2006

Source: GNA

Guinness Ghana Breweries sustains gains of bourse

Accra, Jan. 18, GNA - A significant gain by Guinness Ghana Breweries Limited (GGBL) sustained gains on the Accra bourse although volumes traded remained low.

GGBL gained 419 cedis to end the day at 8,200 cedis. The GSE All-Share Index went up by 26.06 points at 4,733.18 points. Change in the year-to-date was better at -0.75 per cent from Tuesday's -1.30 per cent.

Shares traded were still low at 126,000 although better than the 51,000 traded on Tuesday.

Market capitalisation was better at 91,762.40 billion cedis from 91,693.40 billion cedis on Tuesday.

The following are the last prices of the listed equities in cedis:

ABL 1,200 AGA 300,000 AADs 3,000 ALW 5,500 BAT 3,050 BOPP 5,500 CAL 1,690 CFAO 400 CLYD 1,000 CMLT 1,700 CPC 600 EIC 6,857 FML 15,800 GCB 6,200

GGBL 8,200 +419

GWEB 550 HFC 6,000 MLC 2,500 MOGL 38,000 PAF 800 PBC 3,000 PZ 6,500 SCB 130,000 SPL 570 SPPC 390 SG-SSB 7,000 SWL 290 TBL 27,000 UNIL 15,400 18 Jan. 06