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Business News of Monday, 7 July 2003

Source: gna

Unimpressive session on Exchange

Accra, July 7, GNA - The Ghana Stock Exchange recorded an unimpressive session on Monday with total shares traded slumping to a 62,300 low. Total shares traded last Friday ended higher at 626,200 shares. The GSE-All Share Index went up by 8.95 points to fix at 2,136.72 points from the 2,127.77 points registered on Friday. Market capitalization edged up slightly closing trading at 8,778.81 billion cedis. It ended at 8,757.03 billion cedis from a total of 2,729.93 issued shares. The change in the year to date was 53.44 per cent. On the broader market two equities appreciated with no decliners. Produce Buying Company (ABL) made the day with a gain of 44 cedis to close at 495 cedis while Accra Brewery Limited (ABL) made four cedis to end at 460 cedis.

The following are the last prices of listed equities in cedis: ABL 460 +4 AGC 28,600 ALW 4,000 BAT 1,913 CFAO 73 CPC 630 EIC 6,000 FML 2,507 GBL 552 GCB 6,302 GGL 3,001 HFC 2,600 MGL 258 MLC 466 MOGL 21,000 PAF 750 PBC 495 +44 PZ 2,057 SCB 48,400 SPPC 390 SSB 7,304 SWL 285 TBL 6,000 UNIL 7,305 CMLT 460