The Accra bourse continued to rise during trading on Wednesday, thanks to another good performance by blue chip Ghana Commercial Bank.
Traded shares, however, slumped by more than half to 30,100 from 66,200 shares on Monday. Only nine of the 25 listed equities did business on Wednesday. The GSE All-Share Index, the main market gauge rose by 3.42 points to 1,580.89 points from 1,577.47 points on Monday.
There were only three price changes - all positive. Ghana Commercial Bank jumped up by ?49 to ?4,801; Metalloplastica Ghana Limited was three cedis richer at ?267 and SSB Bank gained two cedis a ?5,816. Market capitalisation ended the day at ?7,341.00 billion from ?7,316.38 billion.
The following are the last prices of listed equities in cedis:
ABL 420
AGC 28,500
ALW 3,500
BAT 1,102
CFAO 67
CPC 630
EIC 5,005
FML 2,006
GBL 520
GCB 4,801 +49
GGL 1,203
HFC 1,205
MGL 257 +3
MLC 280
MOGL 19,751
PAF 750
PBC 390
PZ 2,016
SCB 29,501
SPPC 390
SSB 5,816 +2
SWL 285
TBL 4,900
UNIL 5,001
CMLT 460
