Accra, Aug. 20, GNA - A big gain by Standard Chartered Bank, the second best performer of the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE), pushed the bourse up by 29.13 points, one of the biggest in recent times, as banking stocks continued their good run.
The GSE All-Share Index, the main stock index, ended higher at 5,463.99 points from 5,434.86 points.
Shares that changed hands were, however, a low 64,000 from 9.291 million last Friday when Ecobank Transnational Incorporated alone sold 7.391 million and Ghana Commercial Bank sold 1.742 million shares. Change for the year was 9.15 per cent from Friday's 8.57 per cent. There were three price changes, all positive.
Standard Chartered Bank gained GH=A2 1.00000 at GH=A2 20.0000, SG-SSB Bank gained GH=A2 0.0006 at GH=A2 0.9266 and Ghana Commercial Bank was GH=A2 0.0005 GH at GH=A20.7505.
Market capitalization was GH=A2 11,650.59 million from GH=A2 11,632.78 million.
The following are the prices of equities in cedis:
Equities Full Name Share Code Closing Price in GH cedis
Accra Brewery Ltd ABL 0.1150
Anglo Gold Ashanti AGA 30.0000
Aluworks Limited ALW 0.7400
Ayrton Drug manufacturing Ltd AYRTN 0.0976
British American Tobacco Ltd BAT 0.4266
Benso Oil Palm Plantation BOPP 0.5000
Cal Bank Limited CAL 0.3350
CFAO Ghana Limited CFAO 0.0350
Clydestone Ghana Ltd CLYD 0.0800
Camelot Ghana Limited CMLT 0.1700
Cocoa Processing Company Ltd CPC 0.0530
Ecobank Ghana Ltd EBG 1.5010
Enterprise Insurance Co. Ltd EIC 1.2001
Ecobank Transnational Inc. ETI 1.1650
Fan Milk Limited FML 2.1055
Ghana Commercial Bank Ltd GCB 0.7005 +0.0005
Guinness Ghana Breweries Ltd GGBL 0.9660
Golden Web Ltd GWEB 0.0550
HFC Bank Ltd HFC 0.5400
Mechanical Llyod Co. Ltd MLC 0.2100
Pioneer Kitchenware Ltd PKL 0.0800
Produce Buying Company PBC 0.2400
PZ Cussons Ghana Ltd PZ 0.7350
Standard Chartered Bank Gh. Ltd SCB 20.0000
Starwin Products Limited SPL 0.0550
Super Paper Products Co. Ltd SPPC 0.0203
SG-SSB Limited SG-SSB 0.9266 +0.0006
Sam Woode Limited SWL 0.0265
Trust Bank Ltd (Gambia) TBL 1.3250
TOTAL Petroleum Ghana Ltd TOTAL 5.4810
Transaction Solutions (Ghana) Ltd TRANSOL 0.1200
Unilever Ghana Ltd UNIL 2.0010
AngloGold Ashanti Depository Shares AADS 0.3450
