Market index rises in quiet trading

Accra, Jan. 13, GNA - The Accra bourse shrugged off its recent losses with a gain buoyed by an impressive performance of Aluworks. The GSE All-Share Index, the main stock index, rose by 7.32 points to 4,708.33 points from 4,701.01 points.

Change in the year-to-date was also better at -1.27 per cent from Thursday's close of -1.43 per cent.

Market capitalisation was better at 91,696.61 billion cedis from 91,677.24 billion cedis.

Shares traded jumped up to 121,800 from 38,500 on Thursday.

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

ABL 1,230 AGA 300,000 AADs 3,000

ALW 5,500 +490

BAT 3,050 BOPP 5,500

CAL 1,690 -10

CFAO 400 CLYD 1,000 CMLT 1,700 CPC 600 EIC 6,857 FML 15,800 GCB 6,200

GGBL 7,755 +3

GWEB 550 HFC 6,000 MLC 2,500 MOGL 38,000 PAF 800 PBC 3,000 PZ 6,500 SCB 130,000 SPL 570 SPPC 390 SG-SSB 7,000 SWL 290 TBL 27,000 UNIL 15,400