Another BAT loss causes GSE to slip again

Accra, Sept. 2, GNA - The second significant loss by British American Tobacco (BAT) in 24 hours, pushed down the GSE All-Share Index, the main market indicator, during Friday's trading on the Ghana Stock Exchange.

BAT lost another 200 cedis having shed 300 cedis in Thursday's trading to bring the share price to 3,000 cedis. The index lost 5.03 points at 4,829.49 points from Thursday's close of 4,834.52 points.

Change for the year-to-date ended poorer at -28.96 per cent. There were four price changes three up and one down. Enterprise Insurance Limited gained three cedis at 5,013 cedis, Fan Milk Limited was eight cedis better at 15,050 cedis and Guinness Ghana Breweries Limited gained two cedis at 6,103 cedis.

Shares traded were better at 301,900 from 94,900 on Thursday. Market capitalisation slumped at 91,979.64 billion cedis from 91,922.91 billion cedis from 3,393.18 million shares.

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

ABL 1,480 AGA 300,000 AADs 3,000 ALW 5,000 BAT 3,000 -200 BOPP 6,000 CAL 2,000 CFAO 391 CLYD 1,300 CMLT 1,800 CPC 600

EIC 5,013 +3

FML 15,050 +8

GCB 6,900

GGBL 6,103 +2

GWEB 550 HFC 7,000 MLC 2,500 MOGL 38,012 PAF 800 PBC 3,000 PZ 6,405 SCB 134,000 SPL 600 SPPC 390 SG-SSB 7,865 SWL 290 TBL 27,900 UNIL 16,500