Business News of Monday, 3 April 2006

Source: GNA

Stock index inches up on another CAL Bank gain

Accra, April 3, GNA - The main index of the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) inched up on Monday on another gain by CAL Bank in drab trading. Ghana Stock Exchange All-Share Index gained 0.06 points to end trading at 4,764.13 from Friday's 4,764.07 points. Change for the year to date, however, ended flat at -0.10 per cent.

Volume of shares traded slumped to 47,100 from 1.109 million when Guinness Ghana Breweries Limited (GGBL) alone sold 1,060,800 shares on Friday.

Market capitalisation moved up to 91,935.53 billion cedis from 91,935.38 billion cedis on Friday.

On the broader market, only CAL gained one cedi at 1,931 cedis.

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

ABL 1,150 AGA 300,000 ALW 6,120 BAT 3,048 BOPP 5,500

CAL 1,931 +1

CFAO 399 CLYD 1,000 CMLT 1,700 CPC 600 EIC 6,871 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