Stock market slips on BOPP, BAT losses

Accra, Oct. 18, GNA - The Accra bourse slipped in trading on Wednesday on losses incurred by Bonso Oil Palm Plantation (BOPP) and British American Tobacco (BAT).

The GSE All-Share Index lost 9.39 points to close trading on 6,992.76 points from 7,002.06 points during the previous trading on Monday.

Change for the year was lower at 96.79 per cent.

BOPP was down by 500 cedis at 10,000 cedis and BAT lost 100 cedis at 7,700 cedis. The only gainer was Mobil Oil Ghana Limited, which inched up by one cedi at 38,002 cedis.

Total number of shares that changed hands ended higher at 134,200 cedis from lower at 57,500 cedis. Market capitalisation closed lower at 97,184.37 billion cedis from 97,208.68 billion cedis from 3,425.70 million issued shares.

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

ABL 1,480 AGA 300,000 AADs 3,006 ALW 10,000 BAT 7,700 -100 BOPP 10,000 -500 CFAO 170 CLYD 1,300 CMLT 800 CPC 1,000 EIC 8,000 FML 19,600 GBL 1,500 GCB 13,000 GGL 12,700 HFC 10,100 MGL 275 MLC 3,100

MOGL 38,002 +1

PAF 800 PBC 3,600 PZ 4,555 SCB 170,000 SPPC 390 SG-SSB 27,000 SWL 290 TBL 31,000 UNIL 25,000

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