Accra Bourse inches up in quiet trading

Accra, Aug. 16, GNA - The main index of the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) inched up in another quiet trading that saw marginal gains by three equities.

The GSE All Share Index, the main stock index, went up by 0.11 points at 4,876.52 points from Tuesday's 4,876.41 points. Change for the year remained flat at 2.25 per cent. There were three price changes, all gains.

Enterprise Insurance was five cedis better at 8,295 cedis, while ECOBANK and Guinness Ghana Brewery Limited gained one cedi each at 11,792 cedis and 9,231 cedis, respectively.

Total shares traded slumped to 62,900 from 3,750,500 cedis while Market Capitalisation was 97,386.72 billion cedis from 97,386.27 billion cedis.

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

ABL 1,150 AGA 300,000 ALW 6,804 AYTTN 880 BAT 3,160 BOPP 5,500 CAL 1,900 CFAO 399 CLYD 1,000 CMLT 1,700 CPC 597

EBG 11,792 +1

EIC 8,295 +5

FML 16,011 GCB 6,309

GGBL 9,231 +1

GWEB 550 HFC 5,400 MLC 2,500 MOGL 54,000 PAF 800 PBC 2,800 PZ 6,600 SCB 137,000 SPL 550 SPPC 390 SG-SSB 6,748 SWL 265 TBL 27,000 UNIL 15,000