Business News of Monday, 18 April 2005

Source: GNA

Key indexes tumble as Exchange continues slip

Accra, April 18, GNA - The Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) continued its downward slip on Monday, tumbling again as Unilever Ghana Limited (UNIL) and Starwin Products Limited (SPL) lost 1,000 cedis and 10 cedis respectively to pull it down.

The GSE All-Share Index, the benchmark measure, fell by 23.17 points at 6,304.55 points as against 6,327.72 points at the previous close.

Shares traded also dipped by half at 301,900 compared to 606,900 recorded on Friday.

Market capitalisation closed down at 96,257.11 billion cedis from 96,320.35 billion cedis on Friday.

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

ABL 1,480 AGA 300,000 AADs 3,000 ALW 6,252 BAT 4,500 BOPP 7,000 CAL 3,400 CFAO 275 CLYD 1,300 CMLT 1,400 CPC 800 EIC 7,500 FML 18,000 GBL 1,600 GCB 12,500 GGL 12,500 HFC 7,000 MGL 275 MLC 2,700 MOGL 39,010 PAF 800 PBC 3,300 PZ 5,800 SCB 160,000 SPL 740 -10 SPPC 390 SG-SSB 25,000 SWL 290 TBL 27,900

UNIL 17,000 -1,000