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GCB pushes GSE All-Share Index up

Tue, 4 Apr 2006 Source: GNA

Accra, April 4, GNA - The main index of the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) went up on Tuesday on the strength of Ghana Commercial Bank (GCB) gain.

GSE All-Share Index gained 3.21 points to end trading at 4,767.34 points from Monday's 4,764.13 points. Change for the year to date, however, improved from -0.10 per cent to -0.04 per cent. Volume of shares traded went up to 155,300 from 47,100 on Monday also the back of GCB that sold 100,600 shares.

On the broader market there were three gainers and a decliner. GCB gained 50 cedis to end trading at 6,200 cedis; while CAL Bank (CAL) and Enterprise Insurance Company (EIC) gained two cedis each to close trading at 1,933 cedis and 6,873 cedis, respectively. British America Tobacco, however, lost one cedis to close at 3,047 cedis.

Market capitalisation moved up to 91,944.07 billion cedis from 91,935.53 billion cedis on Monday.

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

ABL 1,150 AGA 300,000 ALW 6,120

BAT 3,047 -1

BOPP 5,500 CAL 1,933 +2 CFAO 399 CLYD 1,000 CMLT 1,700 CPC 600

EIC 6,872 +2

FML 15,800

GCB 6,200 +50

GGBL 8,565 GWEB 550 HFC 6,000 MLC 2,500 MOGL 54,000 PAF 800 PBC 2,800 PZ 6,501 SCB 130,000 SPL 570 SPPC 390 SG-SSB 7,000 SWL 290 TBL 27,000 UNIL 15,400

Source: GNA