Business News of Monday, 2 December 2002

Source: gna

Poor performance of Accra bourse continues

The Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) was virtually still on Monday as the main index inched up by only 0.11 points.

The GSE All-Share Index, the main market index, closed trading at 1,362.76 points from 1,362.65 points, with only two equities making gains. Shares that changed hands dropped again slumped to 21,500 from 131,000 as big time investors stayed away. Change for the year was 42.56 per cent from 42.55 per cent.

On the broader market, Fan Milk Limited continued its slow push by gaining three cedis at 1,781 cedis and Ghana Commercial Bank was up by one cedi 3,516 cedis. Market capitalisation ended at 5,108.75 billion from 5,108.53 billion cedis.

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

ABL 390

AGC 18,807

ALW 3,700

BAT 1,001

CFAO 67

EIC 4,600

FML 1,781 +3

GBL 500

GCB 3,516 +1

GGL 1,040

HFC 955

MGL 254

MLC 270

MOGL 19,721

PAF 750

PBC 390

PZ 2,001

SCB 28,002

SPPC 387

SSB 3,963

SWL 285

TBL 4,550

UNIL 4,700

CMLT 460