Business News of Wednesday, 21 September 2005

Source: GNA

Stock market ends nearly flat

Accra, Sept. 21, GNA - The GSE All-Share Index ended nearly flat in dull trading on Wednesday that saw only two weak price changes. The index inched up by a mere 0.02 points at 4,884.20 points from Tuesday's 4,884.18 points.

Change for the year-to-date ended flat at -28.16 per cent. There were two price changes, both positive.

Enterprise Insurance Company gained three cedis at 6,013 cedis while Fan Milk Limited was one cedi better at 15,556 cedis. Shares that changed hands were better at 120,400 from 65,300 shares on Tuesday.

Market capitalisation closed better at 92,144.94 billion cedis from 92,144.85 billion cedis on Tuesday from 3,393.18 issued 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 3,000 BOPP 6,000 CAL 2,000 CFAO 405 CLYD 1,300 CMLT 1,800 CPC 600

EIC 6,013 +3

FML 15,556 +1

GCB 6,850 GGBL 7,210 GWEB 550 HFC 7,000 MLC 2,500 MOGL 38,012 PAF 800 PBC 3,000 PZ 6,405 SCB 134,000 SPL 550 SPPC 390 SG-SSB 7,865 SWL 290 TBL 27,900 UNIL 15,800