GRi Business, Economics & Finance 23 – 07 - 2002

All-Share Index sustains gains

Accra (Greater Accra) 23 July 2002- The market index of the Accra bourse opened the week higher by 4.34 points, although less than 40,000 shares changed hands.

The GSE All-Share Index ended at 1,251 points from 1,247.56 points. Three equities made gains during trading with seven companies selling shares.

However, Unilever, which sold only 14,900 shares, registered the highest sale for the day. Other companies that sold shares were AGC, 200, Aluworks 11,200, Ghana Commercial Bank (GCB) 800, Patterson Zochonis (PZ) 8,000, Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) 200 and SSB Bank (SSB), 4,200.

PZ went up by 50 cedis at 1,800 cedis, SCB rose by 49 cedis at 21,801 cedis and Unilever climbed by 99 cedis at 3,950 cedis.

Market capitalisation closed higher at 4,746.33 billion cedis from 4,737.88 billion cedis.

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

ABL 370

AGC 18,800

ALW 4,000

BAT 935

CFAO 65

EIC 4,200

FML 1,625

GBL 900

GCB 3,260

GGL 910

HFC 955

MGL 253

MLC 255

MOGL 19,610

PAF 750

PBC 440

PZ 1,800 +50

SCB 21,801 +49

SPPC 385

SSB 3,710

SWL 285

UNIL 3,950 +99

CMLT 455

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