Accra Bourse in marginal gain

Accra, Aug. 9, GNA - Patterson Zochonis (PZ) led a strong price rally on the Accra bourse on Wednesday with the GSE All-Share Index, the benchmark index, going up by 1.4 points.

The Index ended the mid-week trading at 4,874.18 points from 4,872.78 points registered on Tuesday.

Change for the year to date now stands at 2.21 per cent. There were five price changes, all gains.

PZ led the price surge with a 90-cedi gain closing at 6,600 cedis; Guinness Ghana Brewery Limited was up nine cedis at 9,225 cedis and Enterprise Insurance went up one cedi at 8,138 cedis. Other gainers were ECOBANK Ghana Limited, which continued its surge by gaining one cedi at 11,761 cedis and Aluworks Limited going up by one cedi at 6,802 cedis.

Total shares traded fell to 71,100 shares down from 247,200 shares at the previous close.

Market capitalisation was 96,899.19 billion cedis from 96,894.96 billion cedis (corrected figure for Tuesday's trading).

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

ABL 1,150 AGA 300,000

ALW 6,802 +1

BAT 3,160 BOPP 5,500 CAL 1,940 CFAO 399 CLYD 1,000 CMLT 1,700 CPC 597

EBG 11,761 +1

EIC 8,138 +1

FML 16,010 GCB 6,309 GGBL 9,225 +9 GWEB 550 HFC 5,400 MLC 2,500 MOGL 54,000 PAF 800 PBC 2,800 PZ 6,600 +90 SCB 137,000 SPL 550 SPPC 390 SG-SSB 6,748 SWL 265 TBL 27,000 UNIL 15,000