All-Share Index continues slow rise

Accra (Greater Accra) 8^th February 2000

The Ghana Stock Exchange All-Share Index continued its slow rise with a 0.08 gain on Monday to 742.78 points thus pushing the change for the year to 0.90 per cent.

Twenty equities offered a total of 486,210 shares as against 71,200 shares demanded by eight equities.

Shares offered and demanded on Friday were 1.7 million and 1.3 million respectively.

Total shares traded came down with a bang from 1.2 million to 18,600 shares from the sale of shares of six out of the 22 listed equities. The exchange saw a block sale of SSB bank shares last Friday.

Market capitalisation opened the week up by a small margin from 3,215.74 billion cedis to 3,215.85 billion cedis.

In the broader market, there was only one price change, a gainer, as negative pressures dominated 14 equities.

Guinness Ghana Limited (GGL) opened the week higher at 966 cedis with a one-cedi gain.

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

ABL 470

AGC 18,700

ALW 2,489

BAT 466

CFAO 38

EIC 1,880

FML 935

GBL 1,450

GCB 770

GGL 966 +1

HFC 750

MGL 200

MLC 150

MOGL 14,500

PAF 295

PZ 800

SCB 19,200

SPPC 150

SSB 1,988

UNIL 1,850

UTC-E 125

CMLT 420

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