Business News of Friday, 13 July 2007

Source: GNA

Accra bourse ends week on positive note

Accra, July 13, GNA - The Ghana Stock Exchange (GES) ended the week on a positive note as the All-Share Index, the main stock gauge, closed the day up by 5.86 points.

The index ended at 5,340.20 points from 5,334.34 points. Change of the Year to date was better at 6.68 per cent from Thursday's 6.56 per cent.

Market capitalisation closed the week down at 129,000 from Thursday's 1.637 million shares.

There were eight price changes, all positive. CAL Bank's rise continued with GH cedis 0.0001 at 0.3093 GH cedis, Ecobank Ghana was 0.0002 GH cedis at 1.4567 GH cedis, Enterprise Insurance picked up 0.0005 GH cedis at 1.0255 cedis, Ghana Commercial Bank was 0.0001 GH cedis at 0.6821 GH cedis, Guinness Ghana Breweries Limited inched up by 0.0009 GH cedis at 0.9580 GH cedis and Patterson Zochonis gained 0.0004 GH cedis at 0.7205 GH cedis.

Standard Chartered Bank was 0.0003 GH cedis richer at 18.0620 GH cedis and SG-SSB went up by 0.0230 GH cedis at 0.8500 GH cedis. Market capitalization ended the week higher at GH cedis 11,502.42 billion GH cedis from 11,498.90 million GH cedis.

The following are the prices of equities in cedis:

Equities Full Name Share Code Closing Price in GH cedis

Accra Brewery Ltd ABL 0.1150

Anglo Gold Ashanti AGA 30.000

Aluworks Limited ALW 0.7400

Ayrton Drug manufacturing Ltd AYRTN 0.0976

British American Tobacco Ltd BAT 0.4266

Benso Oil Palm Plantation BOPP 0.5000

Cal Bank Limited CAL 0.3093 +0.0001

CFAO Ghana Limited CFAO 0.0350

Clydestone Ghana Ltd CLYD .08000

Camelot Ghana Limited CMLT 0.1700

Cocoa Processing Company Ltd CPC 0.0538

Ecobank Ghana Ltd EBG 1.4567 +0.0002

Enterprise Insurance Co. Ltd EIC 1.0255 +0.0005

Ecobank Transnational Inc. ETI 1.1650

Fan Milk Limited FML 1.9610

Ghana Commercial Bank Ltd GCB 0.6821 +0.0001

Guinness Ghana Breweries Ltd GGBL 0.9580 +0.0009

Golden Web Ltd GWEB 0.0550

HFC Bank Ltd HFC 0.5400

Mecahnical Llyod Co. Ltd MLC 0.2100

Pioneer Kitchenware Ltd PKL 0.0800

Produce Buying Company PBC 0.2600

PZ Cussons Ghana Ltd PZ 0.7205 +0.0004

Standard Chartered Bank Gh. Ltd SCB 18.0620 +0.0003

Starwin Products Limited SPL 0.0550

Super Paper Products Co. Ltd SPPC 0.0203

SG-SSB Limited SG-SSB 0.8500 +0.0230

Sam Woode Limited SWL 0.0265

Trust Bank Ltd (Gambia) TBL 1.3250

TOTAL Petroleum Ghana Ltd TOTAL 5.4450

Transaction Solutions (Ghana)Ltd TRANSOL 0.1200

Unilever Ghana Ltd UNIL 1.9025

AngloGold Ashanti Depository Shares AADS 0.3430