Accra bourse inches up in quiet trading

Accra, Nov. 23, GNA - The Ghana Stock Exchange barely inched up in quiet trading on Thursday as the bourse continued to register low traded volumes in the week.

The Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) All-Share Index, the main stock index, gained 0.59 points at 4,974.19 points from Wednesday's 4,973.60 points.

Change to date ended at 4.30 per cent.

On the broader market, there were four price changes, all gains. British American Tobacco gained 50 cedis at 3,250 cedis, Aluworks was one cedi better at 7,151 cedis, Enterprise Insurance also gained one cedi at 8,811 cedis an Fan Milk Limited was better by two cedis at 17,007 cedis.

Total shares traded went up at 68,900 from Wednesday's 48,300 while market capitalisation was up at 112,097.25 billion cedis from 112,093.69 billion cedis.

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

ABL 1,150 AGA 300,000

ALW 7,151 +1

ARYTN 976 BAT 3,250 +50 BOPP 5,500 CAL 1,800 CFAO 399 CLYD 800 CMLT 1,700 CPC 538 EBG 13,201

EIC 8,811 +1

ETI 22,706

FML 17,007 +2

GCB 6,150 GGBL 9,251 GWEB 550 HFC 5,400 MLC 2,100 PKL 800 PBC 2,600 PZ 6,650 SCB 155,007 SPL 550 SPPC 300 SG-SSB 6,000 SWL 265 TBL 26,500 TOTAL 54,017 UNIL 15,000 AADS 3,100 16 Nov. 06