GSE All-Share index up in active trading

Accra, March 23, GNA - The GSE All-Share index, the benchmark measure, rose by 2.23 points to close at 5,072.75, points in active trading on Friday from 5,070.53 during the previous trading. Shares that changed were 27,583,000 with CAL Bank Ghana Limited selling 26,892,500 out of them. Cal sold 1,954,300 during Thursday trading. Guinness Ghana Breweries Limited also sold 635,000 shares. Change for the year inched up at 1.33 per cent.

On the broader market, four banks enjoyed positive price changes. Cal Bank led the pack with 75 cedis gain to close at 2,275 cedis; Ghana Commercial Bank was richer by seven cedis at 6,150 cedis; with Standard Chartered Bank going up by five cedis to close trading at 168,015 cedis while SG-SSB had two cedis upward adjustment at 6,302 cedis.

Market capitalization closed higher at 112,896.95 billion cedis from 112,883.64 billion cedis on Thursday.

The following are the prices of equities in cedis:

ABL 1,150 AGA 300,000 ALW 7,463 AYRTN 976 BAT 3,300 BOPP 5,500

CAL 2,275 +75

CFAO 350 CLYD 800 CMLT 1,700 CPC 538 EBG 14,025 EIC 8,903 ETI 11,350 FML 19,005

GCB 6,150 +7

GGBL 9,352 GWEB 550 HFC 5,400 MLC 2,100 PKL 800 PBC 2,600 PZ 7,106

SCB 168,015 +5

SPL 550 SPPC 225

SG-SSB 6,302 +2

SWL 265 TBL 13,250 TOTAL 54,252 TRANSOL 1,200 UNIL 15,000 AADS 3,310