Accra bourse slips under weight of BAT

Accra, Jan. 24, GNA - The Accra bourse slipped on Monday under the weight of a 700-cedi loss by British American Tobacco in dull trading. The GSE All-Share Index, the main stock index, went down by 6.2 points to 6,892.81 from 6,899.01 points.

Change for the year went down to 1.39 per cent.


Shares that changed hands were slightly lower at 135,000 from Friday's 136,400.


There were four price changes, three up one down.


British American Tobacco lost 700 cedis at 7,000 cedis. Ghana Commercial Bank rose by 180 cedis at 11,880 cedis, Benso Oil Palm Plantation (BOPP) went up by 50 cedis to close at 6,650 cedis, while Mobil Oil Ghana Limited was five cedis better at 39,010 cedis. Market capitalisation closed lower at 97,877.92 billion cedis from 3,663.42 million issued shares.


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

ABL 1,480 AGA 300,000 AADs 3,006 ALW 10,000


BAT 7,000 -700


BOPP 6,650 +50 CAL 3,400 CFAO 246 CLYD 1,330 CMLT 970 CPC 1,000 EIC 8,000 FML 20,000 GBL 1,600


GCB 11,880 +180


GGL 12,700 HFC 9,900 MGL 275 MLC 3,100

MOGL 39,010 +5


PAF 800 PBC 3,600 PZ 5,000 SCB 170,000 SPL 760 SPPC 390


SG-SSB 27,000


SWL 290 TBL 31,000 UNIL 22,000