GSE Index in poor performance

Accra, Sept. 15, GNA - Trading on the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) on Monday recorded a poor showing as the total shares traded were about six times lower than the previous close.

Total shares dropped significantly from Friday's close of 67,600 shares to 11,800 shares on Monday. The Produce Buying Company (PBC) sold 5,100 shares, the highest.


The All-Share Index, that is, the market gauge, shed 4.92 points from 2,612.34 points to close at 2,607.42 points on Monday. Three price changes were recorded; two negative and one positive. The only gainer, Ghana Brewery Limited (GBL) went up five cedis to close at 815 cedis.


Ghana Commercial Bank (GCB) lost 100 cedis to close at 7,400 cedis while Social Security Bank lost 34 cedis to close at 8,100 cedis. The change in year to date fixed at 86.87 per cent. Market capitalization declined 10,179.86 billion cedis from 10,192.27 billion cedis.

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


ABL 460 AGC 28,650 ALW 4,000 BAT 2,400 CFAO 74 CPC 630 EIC 6,850 FML 2,940 GBL 815 +5 GCB 7,400 -100 GGL 3,950 HFC 2,650 MGL 270 MLC 600 MOGL 24,101 PAF 750 PBC 1,200 PZ 2,400 SCB 58,506 SPPC 390 SSB 8,100 -34 SWL 288 TBL 7,000 UNIL 8,900 CMLT 520