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Business News of Monday, 20 October 2003

Source: GNA

Accra bourse opens week with marginal gains

Accra, Oct. 20, GNA - The Accra Bourse on Monday opened trading recording marginal gains after it posted very impressive performance last week.
The All-Share Index, the market indicator was up by 3.51 points to open the week at 2,852.60 points from 2,849.09 points.
Traded shares went up slightly to 212,700 from 131,100 on Friday. Change in the year ended at 104.44 per cent.
In the broader market, there were two price changes, all positive. Unilever Ghana gained 105 cedis to close at 9,905 cedis while Ghana Commercial Bank made 14 cedis to finish at 5,815 cedis.
Market capitalisation edged up to 10,833.77 billion cedis from 10,824.89 billion cedis it recorded on Friday.
The following are the last prices of listed equities in cedis:

 ABL  460 AGC   28,650 ALW  4,000 BAT  2,900 CFAO   74 CPC   630 EIC  7,110 FML  3,400 GBL   905 GCB   5,815 +14 GGL  4,600 HFC  3,050 MGL  271 MLC  654 MOGL   24,300 PAF  740 PBC   1,300 PZ   2,600 SCB   59,001 SPPC   390 SSB   15,700 SWL   288 TBL   7,800 UNIL   9,905 +105 CMLT  520