GSE continues to decline

Accra, March 21, GNA - The Ghana Stock Exchange plunged again in trading on Monday following another hefty loss by Unilever. The Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) All-Share Index, the main stock index, was down by 22.89 points at 6,455.10 points from 6,477.99 points on Friday while change for the year decelerated further at - 5.05 per cent.

There was only one price change, a 1,000-cedi loss by Unilever, the second in two successive trading sessions, at 18,000 cedis. Shares traded were down by more than half at 336,000 from Friday's close of 701,800 on Friday.

Market capitalization was down at 96,678.29 from 96,740.79 billion cedis on Friday.

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

ABL 1,480 AGA 300,000 AADs 3,000 ALW 6,252 BAT 4,500

BOPP 7,000 CAL 3,400 CFAO 255 CLYD 1,300 CMLT 1,400 CPC 800 EIC 8,000

FML 18,000 GBL 1,600 GCB 13,010 GGL 12,500 HFC 8,600 MGL 275 MLC 3,000

MOGL 39,010 PAF 800 PBC 3,300 PZ 5,700 SCB 160,000 SPL 750 SPPC 390 SG-SSB 25,000 SWL 290 TBL 31,000

UNIL 18,000 -1,000