Business News of Monday, 29 October 2007

Source: GNA

Stock index in quiet trading

Accra, Oct. 29, GNA - The Accra bourse ended a quiet trading session on Monday with the GSE All-Share Index, the benchmark measure inching up.

The index closed the session up a mere 0.12 points to end 5,839.42 points compared to 5,839.30 points. Change year to date remains unchanged from Friday's close at 16.65 per cent.

A total of 23,800 shares changed hands, a fall from 28,400 shares recorded on Friday. On the broader market, there were two positive price changes.

CAL Bank gained 0.0001 GH cedis at 0.3514 GH cedis and SG-SSB gained 0.0004 GH cedis at 1.0910 GH cedis. Market capitalisation was up marginally at 11,849.26 million GH cedis from 11,849.19 million GH cedis at the previous close.