Stock Exchange All-Share Index, Was Up

With a modest 1.44 points to close mid-week trading at 1,025.78 points compared to 1,024.34 points on Monday.

The index, which leapt a huge 87.27 points on Monday, through Aluworks bonus issue of two new shares, slumped back to its slow pick-up as bearish sentiments continued to dominate the market.Total volumes fell sharply to 56,600 shares from 1.16 million shares on Monday. Camelot, which led the rally on Monday with a sale of 1.15 million shares to its institutional investors, could not make any sales at mid-week.