GSE index falls in dull trading

Accra, Aug. 8, GNA - The Ghana Stock Exchange fell again in dull trading on Monday with the All-Share Index, the main market indicator, going down by 20.22 points at 4,851.25 points, on a big loss of Ghana Commercial Bank.

Change for the year-to-date plunged further the red at -28.64 per cent.

There were four price changes - two either way. Ghana Commercial Bank (GCB) lost 500 cedis at 7,000 and Cocoa Products Company (CPC) also lost eight cedis at 600 cedis. SG-SSB gained 251 cedis at 7,801 cedis and Guinness Ghana Breweries inched up by one cedi at 6,001 cedis. Shares traded were down 115,100 shares from 226,100 shares on Friday.

Market capitalisation was up at 92,026.46 billion cedis from 91,875.92 billion cedis from 3,382.54 million issued shares.

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

ABL 1,480 AGA 300,000 AADs 3,000 ALW 5,000 BAT 3,500 BOPP 6,000 CAL 2,200 CFAO 386 CLYD 1,300 CMLT 1,800

CPC 600 -8

EIC 5,000 FML 15,002

GCB 7,000 -500

GGBL 6,001 +1 HFC 7,000 MLC 2,500 MOGL 38,000 PAF 800 PBC 3,000 PZ 6,401 SCB 134,000 SPL 650 SPPC 390

SG-SSB 7,801 +251

SWL 290 TBL 27,900 UNIL 16,500