Business News of Monday, 20 March 2006

Source: GNA

Market begins week on quiet note

Accra, March 20, GNA - The Accra bourse began the week on a quiet note on Monday with only one equity making a weak gain. The GSE All-Share Index, the main market index, closed trading up by 0.06 points on the strength of one-cedi gain by CAL Bank on the broader market at 1,852 cedis.

The index ended at 4,759.20 points from 4,759.15 points on Friday. Volume of shares traded was lower at 185,600 compared to 305,200 shares recorded at the previous session.

Market capitalisation went up to 91,922.39 billion cedis from 91,922.23 billion cedis on Friday while change in the year to date remained at -0.21 per cent.

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

ABL 1,150 AGA 300,000 ALW 8,100 BAT 3,049 BOPP 5,500

CAL 1,852 +1

CFAO 399 CLYD 1,000 CMLT 1,700 CPC 600 EIC 6,866 FML 15,800 GCB 6,150

GGBL 8,565 GWEB 550 HFC 6,000 MLC 2,500 MOGL 54,000 PAF 800 PBC 2,800 PZ 6,501 SCB 130,000 SPL 570 SPPC 390 SG-SSB 7,000 SWL 290 TBL 27,000 UNIL 15,400