Accra bourse posts good gain

Accra, Feb. 1, GNA - The Accra bourse lifted itself up on Wednesday, but the volume of traded shares remained low. The All-Share Index, the main market index, gained 28.55 points on the strength of a good show by Mobil Oil Ghana Limited (MOGL), which gained 16,000 cedis at 54,000 cedis.

The All-Share Index ended up at 4,721.39 points from Tuesday's 4,692.84 points while change of the year-to-date appreciated to -1.00 per cent from -1.60 per cent.


Market capitalization rose to 91,731.22 billion cedis from 91,655.62 billion cedis while shares that changed hands slumped to 23,200 from 160,300 on Tuesday.


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

ABL 1,150 AGA 300,000 AADs 3,000 ALW 5,540 BAT 3,050 BOPP 5,500 CAL 1,690 CFAO 400 CLYD 1,000 CMLT 1,700 CPC 600 EIC 6,858 FML 15,800 GCB 6,200 GGBL 8,200 GWEB 550 HFC 6,000 MLC 2,500


MOGL 54,000 +16,000


PAF 800 PBC 2,800 PZ 6,500 SCB 130,000 SPL 570 SPPC 390 SG-SSB 7,000 SWL 290 TBL 27,000 UNIL 15,400