Business News of Monday, 27 February 2006

Source: GNA

All-Share index inches up

Accra, Feb. 27, GNA - The main stock index inched up on Monday in another quiet trading that saw only one equity making a move. The GSE All-Share Index gained 0.13 points to close at 4,730.11 points from 4,729.98 points on Friday.

Change for the year, however, remained at -0.82 per cent. Traded shares were 220,500 from a mere 18,600 on Friday while market capitalisation went up to 91,815.11 billion cedis from 91,844.89 billion cedis on Friday.

On the broader market, there was only one price change, a two-cedi gain by Guinness Ghana Breweries Limited at 8,552 cedis.

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

ABL 1,150 AGA 300,000 AADs 3,000 ALW 5,800 BAT 3,049 BOPP 5,500 CAL 1,450 CFAO 399 CLYD 1,000 CMLT 1,700 CPC 600 EIC 6,859 FML 15,800 GCB 6,150

GGBL 8,552 +2

GWEB 550 HFC 6,000 MLC 2,500 MOGL 54,000 PAF 800 PBC 2,800 PZ 6,501 SCB 130,000 SPL 570 SPPC 390 SG-SSB 7,000 SWL 290 TBL 27,000 UNIL 15,400