Big ECOBANK gain lifts stock index

Accra, Nov. 7, GNA - A big gain by blue chip ECOBANK Ghana on Tuesday lifted the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) index, although volumes traded hit another low.

The GSE All-Share Index was 5.44 points better at 4,983.43 points from 4,977.99 points on Monday while change for the year went up at 4.50 per cent from 4.38 per cent.

Ecobank Ghana gained 197 cedis at 12,900 cedis and Fan Milk Limited was one cedi better at 16,561 cedis.

Total shares continued to slide at 28,000 from 38,000 shares but market capitalisation jumped to 112,151.35 billion cedis on Monday.

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

ABL 1,150 AGA 300,000 ALW 7,021 ARYTN 970 BAT 3,200 BOPP 5,500 CAL 1,800 CFAO 399 CLYD 800 CMLT 1,700 CPC 538

EBG 12,900 +197

EIC 8,800 ETI 22,707

FML 16,561 +1

GCB 6,150 GGBL 9,253 GWEB 550 HFC 5,400 MLC 2,300 PKL 800 PBC 2,800 PZ 6,650 SCB 155,005 SPL 550 SPPC 300 SG-SSB 6,000 SWL 265 TBL 27,000 TOTAL 54,015 UNIL 15,000 AADS 3,100