Business News of Wednesday, 10 October 2007

Source: GNA

Stock index moves up in quiet trading

Accra, Oct. 10, GNA - The main index of the Accra bourse moved up in quiet trading that again saw investors sitting on the fence as the bearish sentiments continued.

All-Share Index gained 5.17 points at 5,708.77 points with volumes that changed hands falling by half at 50,200 shares from Tuesday's 101,600.

On the broader market, there were two price changes, both positive. Ecobank went up by 0.0001 GH cedis at 1.6251 GH cedis while Unilever was better by 0.0499 at 2.1000 GH cedis.

Market capitalisation ended better at 11,770.06 million GH cedis from 11,766.93 million GH cedis.

The following are the prices of equities in 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 0.7400 Ayrton Drug manufacturing Ltd AYRTN 0.0976 Benso Oil Palm Plantation BOPP 0.5000 Cal Bank Limited CAL 0.3452 CFAO Ghana Limited CFAO 0.0350

Clydestone Ghana Ltd CLYD 0.0800 Camelot Ghana Limited CMLT 0.1700 Cocoa Processing Company Ltd CPC 0.0530 Ecobank Ghana Ltd EBG 1.6251 +0.0001 Enterprise Insurance Co. Ltd EIC 1.2003 Ecobank Transnational Inc. ETI 1.1650 Fan Milk Limited FML 2.1120 Ghana Commercial Bank Ltd GCB 0.9001

Guinness Ghana Breweries Ltd GGBL 1.0700

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 0.8150 Standard Chartered Bank Gh.Ltd SCB 22.5000 Starwin Products Limited SPL 0.0550 Super Paper Products Co. Ltd SPPC 0.0205 SG-SSB Limited SG-SSB 1.0521 Sam Woode Limited SWL 0.0265 Trust Bank Ltd (Gambia) TBL 1.3250 TOTAL Petroleum Ghana Ltd TOTAL 5.4853

Transaction Solutions Gh.Ltd TRANSOL 0.1200

Unilever Ghana Ltd UNIL 2.1000 +0.0499

AngloGold Ashanti Depository Shares AADS 0.3450