Business News of Thursday, 10 October 2002

Source: gna

Stock Exchange: Slight Rise

The stock index on Wednesday went up slightly by 2.25 points to bring the main market gauge up to 1,333.94 points from 1,331.69 points.

The Ghana Stock Exchange's All-Share Index was up by 16.29 points at the previous trading as two big stocks rallied to give it the big push. Shares traded closed mid-week trading higher at 101,000 from 43,100 with the change in the year to date finishing at 39.54 per cent.

Market capitalisation moved up from 4,902.23 billion cedis to 4,906.59 billion cedis. In the broader market, there were four price changes - all positive. Paterson Zochonis (PZ0 gained the highest of 49 cedis to close trading at 1,900 cedis.

Unilever Ghana Limited (UNIL) followed with 36 cedis at 4,301 cedis while Guinness Ghana Limited (GGL) gained six cedis to finish at 921 cedis. Mechanical Lloyd Company (MLC) earned a cedi to close trading at 263 cedis.

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

ABL 380

AGC 18,807

ALW 4,000

BAT 966

CFAO 67

EIC 4,520

FML 1,666

GBL 900

GCB 3,396

GGL 921 +6

HFC 955

MGL 254

MLC 263 +1

MOGL 19,720

PAF 750

PBC 400

PZ 1,900 +49

SCB 26,023

SPPC 387

SSB 3,950

SWL 285

UNIL 4,301 +36

CMLT 460