Business News of Tuesday, 7 February 2006

Source: GNA

Main index inches up in poor trading

Accra, Feb. 7, GNA - The GSE-All Share Index, the main index of the Accra bourse, inched up in poor trading on Tuesday as the poor run of the bourse continued.

The GSE All Share Index went up marginally by 0.01 points at 4,736.25 points from 4,736.24 and change for the year remained flat at -0.69 per cent.

Traded volumes closed lower at 26,300 shares from 36,900 on Monday while market capitalization was up marginally at 91,770.54 billion cedis from 91,770.51 billion cedis on Monday.

On the broader market, there was only a p rice movement, a one-cedi gain by Patterson Zochonis at 6,501 cedis.

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

ABL 1,150 AGA 300,000 AADs 3,000 ALW 5,700 BAT 3,050 BOPP 5,500 CAL 1,690 CFAO 400 CLYD 1,000 CMLT 1,700 CPC 600 EIC 6,858 FML 15,800 GCB 6,200 GGBL 8,400 GWEB 550 HFC 6,000 MLC 2,500 MOGL 54,000 PAF 800 PBC 2,800 PZ 6,501 +1 SCB 130,000 SPL 570 SPPC 390 SG-SSB 7,000 SWL 290 TBL 27,000 UNIL 15,400