The Accra bourse continued to rise during trading on Wednesday, thanks to another good performance by blue chip Ghana Commercial Bank.

Traded shares, however, slumped by more than half to 30,100 from 66,200 shares on Monday. Only nine of the 25 listed equities did business on Wednesday. The GSE All-Share Index, the main market gauge rose by 3.42 points to 1,580.89 points from 1,577.47 points on Monday.

There were only three price changes - all positive. Ghana Commercial Bank jumped up by ?49 to ?4,801; Metalloplastica Ghana Limited was three cedis richer at ?267 and SSB Bank gained two cedis a ?5,816. Market capitalisation ended the day at ?7,341.00 billion from ?7,316.38 billion.

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

ABL 420

AGC 28,500

ALW 3,500

BAT 1,102

CFAO 67

CPC 630

EIC 5,005

FML 2,006

GBL 520

GCB 4,801 +49

GGL 1,203

HFC 1,205

MGL 257 +3

MLC 280

MOGL 19,751

PAF 750

PBC 390

PZ 2,016

SCB 29,501

SPPC 390

SSB 5,816 +2

SWL 285

TBL 4,900

UNIL 5,001

CMLT 460