ECOBANK gains sustain stock index

Accra, Nov. 1, GNA - Gains for the second day running by the two ECOBANK equities - ECOBANK Ghana and ECOBANK Transnational - pushed the main sock index up, but volumes were still low.

The GSE All-Share Index was 4.19 points better at 4,977.52 points from 4,973.33 points on Tuesday and change for the year went up to 4.37 per cent from 4.28 per cent.

ECOBANK Ghana gained 150 cedis at 12,700 cedis while ECOBANK Transnational gained 80 cedis at 8,800 cedis.

Total shares traded were down at 41,300 cedis from 47,100 on Tuesday but market capitalisation was better at 111,614.12 billion cedis from 111,588.61 billion cedis.

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

ABL 1,150 AGA 300,000 ALW 7,020 AYTTN 960 BAT 3,200 BOPP 5,500 CAL 1,800 CFAO 399 CLYD 800 CMLT 1,700 CPC 538

EBG 12,700 +150

EIC 8,800 +50

ETI 22,707 FML 16,555 GCB 6,150 GGBL 9,253 GWEB 550 HFC 5,400 MLC 2,300 PKL 800 PAF 800 PBC 2,800 PZ 6,650 SCB 155,005 SPL 550 SPPC 300 SG-SSB 6,000 SWL 265 TBL 27,000 TOTAL 54,011 UNIL 15,000 AADS 3,100