Accra bourse posts impressive performance

Accra, Oct. 15, GNA - The Ghana Stock Exchange All Share Index on Wednesday went up 94.18 points to push the change in the year to date to 103.35 per cent.

The Index moved to 2,837.35 points from 2,743.17 points. Aluworks Ghana Limited (ALW) sold 1,941,000 shares out of a total of 2,544,700 shares up from 68,500 shares traded on Monday. Market capitalization went up significantly to 10,795.25 billion cedis from 10,557.36 billion cedis.

In the broader market, there were 10 price changes - all positive. SSB Bank gained 1,400 cedis at 15,400 cedis, Unilever Ghana made 500 cedis at 9,800 cedis, Standard Chartered Bank was up by 388 cedis to finish trading at 59,000 with Fan Milk Limited making 188 cedis to end the day at 3,400 cedis.

Ghana Commercial Bank recovered 150 cedis to reach 5,750 cedis; while Guinness Ghana Limited, Mobil Oil Ghana Limited and the Produce Buying Company gained 100 cedis each to finish mid-week trading at 4,600 cedis; 24,300 cedis and 1,300 cedis in that order.

British-American Tobacco Company gained 93 cedis at 2,900 cedis while Home Finance Company made 50 cedis to end at 3,050 cedis.

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

ABL 460 AGC 28,650 ALW 4,000 BAT 2,900 +93 CFAO 74 CPC 630 EIC 7,110 FML 3,400 +188 GBL 905 GCB 5,750 +150 GGL 4,600 +100 HFC 3,050 +50 MGL 271 MLC 654 MOGL 24,300 +100 PAF 750 PBC 1,300 +100 PZ 2,600 SCB 59,000 +388 SPPC 390 SSB 15,400 +1,400 SWL 288 TBL 7,800 UNIL 9,800 +500 CMLT 520