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Business News of Tuesday, 7 October 2008

Source: GNA

Guinness Brewery loss pulls index down

Accra, Oct. 7, GNA - The GSE-All Share Index, the benchmark measure of performance of the Accra bourse, fell sharply by 78.77 points, pulled down by GH¢0.30 loss by Guinness Ghana Brewery Limited. The index closed the session at 10,822.00 points down from 10,900.77 points on Monday.

The change year to date now stands at 63.98 per cent. Traded volumes ended the session lower at 11,000 shares from 27,500 shares.

The only price change was a loss by Guinness Ghana Brewery Limited, which shed GH¢0.30 to close at GH¢2.25. Market capitalisation ended the session lower at 18,076.63 million a fall from GH¢18,126.03 million.

The following are the closing prices of equities in Ghana cedis

Equities Share Code Closing Price in GH cedis

Accra Brewery Ltd ABL 0.12 Anglo Gold Ashanti AGA 30.00 Aluworks Limited ALW 0.62 Ayrton Drug Man. Ltd. AYRTN 0.16 Benso Oil Palm Plantation BOPP 1.30 Cal Bank Limited CAL 0.69 CFAO Ghana Limited CFAO 0.04 Clydestone Ghana Ltd CLYD 0.08 Camelot Ghana Limited CMLT 0.16 Cocoa Processing Com Ltd CPC 0.05

Ecobank Ghana Ltd EBG 4.80 Enterprise Insurance Co. Ltd EIC 3.30 Ecobank Transnational Inc. ETI 0.45 Fan Milk Limited FML 5.00

Ghana Commercial Bank Ltd GCB 1.30

Guinness Ghana Breweries Ltd GGBL 2.25 -0.30 Ghana Oil Company GOIL 0.39 Golden Star Resources GSR 3.10 Golden Web Ltd GWEB 0.05 HFC Bank Ltd HFC 0.62 Mechanical Lloyd Co. Ltd MLC 0.21 Pioneer Kitchenware Ltd PKL 0.07 Produce Buying Company PBC 0.22 PZ Cussons Ghana Ltd PZ 1.12

Standard Chart. Bank Gh.Ltd SCB 38.00 SIC Insurance Company Limited SIC 0.58

Starwin Products Limited SPL 0.05 Super Paper Products Co. Ltd SPPC 0.09 SG-SSB Limited SG-SSB 1.35 Sam Woode Limited SWL 0.03 Trust Bank Ltd (Gambia) TBL 1.33 TOTAL Petroleum Ghana Ltd TOTAL 7.60 Transaction Solutions Gh.Ltd TRANSOL 0.11 Unilever Ghana Ltd UNIL 4.60 AngloGold Ashanti Depository Shares AADS 0.35