GRi Business, Economics & Finance 26 – 11 - 2002

 

 

Poor run of Ghana Stock Exchange continues

 

Accra (Greater Accra) 26 November 2002- The poor run of the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) continued on Monday as the main index, the GSE All-Share Index, only made marginal gains.

 

The Index rose by only 0.45 points to 1,360.05 points from 1,359.60 points with volumes dropping once again to under the 100,000 mark at 55,100 shares.

 

Ghana Commercial Bank and Guinness Ghana Limited were the only two gainers at 3,615 cedis and 1,035 cedis respectively. The change for the year was higher at 42.27 percent from 42.23 percent on Friday.

 

Market capitalisation was up at 5,103.19 billion cedis from 5,102.27 billion cedis at the previous close.

 

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

ABL                        390

AGC                  18,807

ALW                   3,700

BAT                    1,001

CFAO                     67

EIC                     4,600

FML                   1,773

GBL                       500

GCB                   3,515                                    +2

GGL                   1,035                                    +5

HFC                      955

MGL                     254

MLC                     270

MOGL             19,721

PAF                     750

PBC                     390

PZ                     2,001

SCB                28,002

SPPC                  387

SSB                  3,960

SWL                    285

TBL                  4,500

UNIL                4,653

CMLT                 460

GRi…/

 

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