Business News of Wednesday, 16 January 2008

Source: GNA

Rally of five equities pushes up GSE All-Share Index

Accra, Jan. 16, GNA - A rally of five equities on Wednesday pushed the Ghana Stock Exchange All-Share Index, the main market indicator, up by 6.33 points to close trading at 6670.67 points despite a GH=A2 0.0100 loss by one equity.

Change year to date now stands at 1.07 per cent while the volume of traded share was 186,100 shares, with Benso Oil Palm Plantation (BOPP) and Ghana Oil Company Limited (GOIL) selling 79,000 shares and 77,500 shares, respectively.

On the broader market, there were five positive and one negative price changes. BOPP lost GH=A2 0.0100 to close trading at GH=A2 0.4800. SG-SSB Limited went up by GH=A2 0.0289 to close trading at GH=A2 1.3000; Ecobank Ghana Limited (EBG) gained GH=A2 0.0004 at GH=A2 2.1726; CAL was richer by GH=A2 0.0002 at GH=A2 0.4581; while Unilever got GH=A2 0.002 to close at GH=A2 2.1202 with Fan Milk Limited also going up by GH=A2 0.0001 at GH=A22.2401 Market capitalisation went up to GH=A2 12,412.09 million from GH=A2 12,408.21 million.

The following are the closing prices of equities in Ghana cedis

Equities Full Name Share Code Closing Price in GH cedis

Accra Brewery Ltd ABL 0.1150 Anglo Gold Ashanti AGA 30.0000 Aluworks Limited ALW 0.7100 Ayrton Drug Man. Ltd. AYRTN 0.0978 Benso Oil Palm Plantation BOPP 0.4800 - 0.0100 Cal Bank Limited CAL 0.4581 + 0.0002 CFAO Ghana Limited CFAO 0.0350 Clydestone Ghana Ltd CLYD 0.0800 Camelot Ghana Limited CMLT 0.1700 Cocoa Processing Com Ltd CPC 0.0530 Ecobank Ghana Ltd EBG 2.1726

+0.0004 Enterprise Insurance Co. Ltd EIC 1.3000 Ecobank Transnational Inc. ETI 1.2815

Fan Milk Limited FML 2.4201 + 0.0001 Ghana Commercial Bank Ltd GCB 1.0050 Guinness Ghana Breweries Ltd GGBL 1.2327 Ghana Oil Company GOIL 0.3100 Golden Web Ltd GWEB 0.0550 HFC Bank Ltd HFC 0.5400 Mechanical Llyod Co. Ltd MLC 0.2100 Pioneer Kitchenware Ltd PKL 0.0800

Produce Buying Company PBC 0.2400 PZ Cussons Ghana Ltd PZ 0.8380 Standard Chart. Bank Gh.Ltd SCB 26.1000 Starwin Products Limited SPL 0.0550 Super Paper Products Co. Ltd SPPC 0.0330 SG-SSB Limited SG-SSB 1.3000 +0.0289 Sam Woode Limited SWL 0.0265 Trust Bank Ltd (Gambia) TBL 1.3250 TOTAL Petroleum Ghana Ltd TOTAL 5.4950 Transaction Solutions Gh.Ltd TRANSOL 0.1200 Unilever Ghana Ltd UNIL 2.1202 +0.0002 AngloGold Ashanti Depository Shares AADS 0.3450 16 Jan. 08