The Ghana Stock Exchange opened trading on a dull note on Monday, with the benchmark GSE-All Share Index inching up a mere 0.71 points in an inactive market that saw only 3,300 shares changed hands.
The key market gauge closed up marginally at 1,428.82 points from 1,428.11 points as big institutional investors continued to shy away from the market. Traded volumes declined to close at 3,300 shares from 62,600 shares at the previous close on Friday.
On the broader market, there were three positive price changes. Ghana Commercial Bank gained 8 cedis to close at 3,656 cedis, British American Tobacco was one cedi higher at 1,002 cedis and SSB Bank gained one cedi at 4,114 cedis.
Market capitalisation was up at 6,394.54bn cedis as against 6,393.08 at the previous close. The change for the year now stands at 2.40 per cent.
The following are the last prices of listed equities in cedis:
ABL 390
AGC 28,000
ALW 3,700
BAT 1,002 +1
CFAO 67
EIC 4,600
FML 1,800
GBL 510
GCB 3,656 +8
GGL 1,102
HFC 1,200
MGL 254
MLC 272
MOGL 19,730
PAF 750
PBC 390
PZ 2,010
SCB 28,700
SPPC 387
SSB 4,114 +1
SWL 285
TBL 4,850
UNIL 4,861
CMLT 460
