Business News of Monday, 28 June 2004

Source: GNA

Market index in moderate gain

Accra, June 28, GNA - The main market index of the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) made a moderate gain in trading on Monday rising by 6.39 per cent.

The GSE All-Share Index closed the day at 7,050.75 points from Friday's close of 7,044.36 points.

Change for the year surged towards the 100 per cent mark at 98.42 per cent.

There were 299,800 shares that changed hands with only four equities seeing price changes.

Enterprise Insurance Company (EIC) gained 690 cedis at 18,000 cedis, Guinness Ghana Limited was 100 cedis better at 12,500 cedis, Fan Milk Limited went up by 50 cedis at 7,800 cedis while Clydestone rose by five cedis at 886 cedis.

Market capitalization ended at 96,973.42 billion cedis from 3,321.08 issued shares.

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

ABL 1,160 AGA 300,000 AADs 3,006 ALW 12,300 BAT 7,802 CFAO 110 CLYD 885 +5 CMLT 780 CPC 1,960 EIC 18,000 +690 FML 7,800 +50 GBL 1,500 GCB 18,000 GGL 12,500 +100 HFC 10,108 MGL 275 MLC 3,100 MOGL 42,000 PAF 765 PBC 3,700 PZ 3,351 SCB 96,001 SPPC 390 SG-SSB 31,752 SWL 290 TBL 31,500 UNIL 22,500