Accra bourse up on first day of trading in 2004

Accra, Jan. 2, GNA - The Accra bourse was up by 5.54 points on the first day of trading in the New Year, thanks to a 200-cedi gain by British America Tobacco.

The tobacco company ended the first day of trading up at 5,400 cedis and was one of two equities that saw price changes during trading.

The other equity was Ghana Commercial Bank (GCB), which gained one cedi at 8,171 cedis.

Shares traded totalled 497,300 shares and change for the year was 0.16 per cent.

Market capitalisation began the year at 12,630.79 billion cedis.

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

ABL 552

AGC 28,650

ALW 4,000

BAT 5,400 +200

CFAO 75 CMLT 550 CPC 630 EIC 10,500 FML 3,800 GBL 1,460

GCB 8,171 +1

GGL 5,650 HFC 4,000 MGL 275 MLC 700

MOGL 35,001

PAF 740 PBC 1,300 PZ 2,700

SCB 61,001 SPPC 390 SSB 21,000 SWL 288 TBL 9,750 UNIL 14,041