Accra picks up again

Accra, Oct. 14, GNA - The Ghana Stock Exchange picked up again after Thursday's loss halted a slow recovery over the past few days. The GSE-All Share Index, the benchmark measure, climbed by 6.69 points to close at 4,886.69 points on the strength of gains by Guinness Ghana Breweries Limited (GGBL) and British American Tobacco (BAT). Change for the year-to-date went up to -28.12 per cent from -28.22 per cent.

Traded shares shrank to 134,400 from 242,700 shares. GGBL gained 89 cedis at 7,500 cedis and BAT was better by 44 cedis at 3,070 cedis.

Market capitalisation ended up at 92,161.49 billion cedis from 92,143.80 billion cedis.

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

ABL 1,480 AGA 300,000 AADs 3,000 ALW 4,500

BAT 3,070 +44

BOPP 6,000 CAL 2,000 CFAO 405 CLYD 1,300 CMLT 1,800 CPC 600 EIC 6,500 FML 15,621 GCB 6,750

GGBL 7,500 +89

GWEB 550 HFC 7,000 MLC 2,500 MOGL 38,000 PAF 800 PBC 3,000 PZ 6,500

SCB 134,000 SPL 600 SPPC 390 SG-SSB 7,865 SWL 290 TBL 27,900 UNIL 15,500