Business News of Thursday, 15 September 2005

Source: GNA

Stock market records marginal gain

Accra, Sept. 15, GNA - The GSE All-Share Index made a marginal gain on Thursday as bearish sentiments continued to hang over the market. The index closed higher by 2.99 points at 4,904.01 points from 4,901.02 points on Wednesday.

Change for the year-to-date ended at -27.87 per cent. There were two price changes, both positive. Enterprise Insurance Company (EIC) inched up by one cedi at 5,701 cedis and Guinness Ghana Brewery Limited (GGBL) was 48 cedis better at 7,200 cedis.

Shares that changed hands were 126,800. Market capitalisation closed up at 92,191.00 billion cedis from 3,393.18 million 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 5,701 +1

FML 15,555 GCB 6,900

GGBL 7,200 +48

GWEB 550 HFC 7,000 MLC 2,500 MOGL 38,012 PAF 800 PBC 3,000 PZ 6,405 SCB 134,000 SPL 600 SPPC 390 SG-SSB 7,865 SWL 290 TBL 27,900 UNIL 16,500