Stock Exchange in drab trading

Accra, Jan. 12, GNA - The Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) recorded another drab trading session with the main stock index barely moving up. The GSE All-Share Index, the main stock index, crawled up by 0.26 points to end the day at 6,811.29 points.

Change for the year ended at 0.19 per cent while market capitalisation closed at 97,653.93 billion cedis from 3,663.42 million shares.

There were three price changes, all positive.

Starwin Products Limited (SPL) again made a gain, climbing by 60 cedis to 740 cedis. Ghana Commercial Bank was four cedis better at 10,256 cedis and Benso Oil Palm Plantation (BOPP) went up by two cedis to 6,567 cedis.

Total number of shares that changed hands was 279,000 from Monday's 195,000.

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

ABL 1,480 AGA 300,000 AADs 3,006 ALW 10,000 BAT 7,700

BOPP 6,567 +2

CAL 3,400 CFAO 220 CLYD 1,330 CMLT 970 CPC 1,000 EIC 8,000 FML 20,000 GBL 1,600

GCB 10,256 +4

GGL 12,700 HFC 10,000 MGL 275 MLC 3,100 MOGL 39,000 PAF 800 PBC 3,600 PZ 4,850 SCB 170,000

SPL 740 +60

SPPC 390 SG-SSB 27,000 SWL 290 TBL 31,000 UNIL 22,000