Business News of Tuesday, 21 December 2010

Source: GNA

Accra bourse index suffers second straight loss

Accra, Dec. 21, GNA - The GSE All-Share Index, the benchmark measure of performance of the Ghana Stock Exchange, slipped by 32.14 points for a second straight loss at 7,186.51 points, down from 7,218.65 points at the previous close.

The loss brings the gain so far this year to 28.97 per cent. There were four price changes, equally shared between the gainers and losers.

Aluworks Limited (ALW) recouped some of its previous losses, going up by GH¢0.01 to GH¢0.12 while SG-SSB Limited (SG-SSB) went up GH¢0.02 at GH¢0.64.

Fan Milk Ghana Limited (FML) was down by GH¢0.05 at GH¢2.53 and Ghana Commercial Bank was lower by GH¢0.10 at GH¢2.50.

A total of 389,695 shares were traded, valued at GH¢329,378.58. Market Capitalisation was marginally lower at GH¢20,141.21 million d= own from GH¢20,166.04 million.