Business News of Monday, 11 July 2005

Source: GNA

Stock indices mark time slow trading

Accra, July 11, GNA - The main indices of the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) marked time in trading on Monday after a series of poor sessions last week that plunged the market deeper into the red.

The GSE-All Share index stood still at 5,456.79 points.

Change for the year-to-date now stands at -19.74 per cent. There was no price change and shares traded closed at a mere 26,300 compared to Friday's close of 41,300.

Market capitalisation was also the same at 93,459.57 billion cedis from 3,400.54 million shares

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

ABL 1,480 AGA 300,000 AADs 3,000 ALW 5,000 BAT 4,000

BOPP 6,000 CAL 3,200 CFAO 361 CLYD 1,300 CMLT 1,720 CPC 800

EIC 6,500 FML 18,000 GCB 10,000

GGBL 8,250 HFC 7,000 MGL 275 MLC 2,500

MOGL 38,000

PAF 800 PBC 3,000 PZ 6,400 SCB 134,000 SPL 650 SPPC 390 SG-SSB 10,000 SWL 290 TBL 27,900 UNIL 16,500