GSE All-Share Index inches up

Accra, Jan. 25, GNA - The GSE All-Share Index, the benchmark index of the Accra bourse, on Thursday inched up in active trading that saw 1,213,400 shares changing hands.

The Index went up by 0.57 points to 5,010.26 points on the strength of two price changes, a 104 cedis gain by PZ Cussons Ghana Limited (PZ) to end trading at 7,100 cedis and three cedis gain by ECOBANK Ghana Limited to end trading at 13,551 cedis.

Total shares traded were a whooping 1,213,400 shares with ECOBANK Trans-national Incorporated selling 1,200,900 of them. Change for the year to date was 0.08 per cent.

Market capitalization closed higher at 112,521.66 billion cedis from Wednesday's 112,518.26 billion cedis.

The following are the prices of equities in cedis:

ABL 1,150 AGA 300,000 ALW 7,252 AYRTN 976 BAT 3,300 BOPP 5,500 CAL 2,205 CFAO 399 CLYD 800 CMLT 1,700 CPC 538

EBG 13,551 +3

EIC 8,823 ETI 22,700 FML 18,011 GCB 6,200 GGBL 9,000 GWEB 550 HFC 5,400 MLC 2,100 PKL 800 PBC 2,600

PZ 7,100 +104

SCB 160,000 SPL 550 SPPC 225 SG-SSB 6,000 SWL 265 TBL 13,250 TOTAL 54,100 TRANSOL 1,050 UNIL 15,000