Institutional investors lift market activities
Accra (Greater Accra) 06 October 2001 - The Ghana Stock Exchange had a breather on Friday as institutional investors returned to the market to push traded volumes up from a low of 63,900 shares on Wednesday to more than two million shares.
Over 2.04 million shares changed hands with SSB Bank alone selling 2,022,500 million shares.
However, the GSE All-Share Index, the key stock gauge managed only a modest 0.44 points to finish at 957.90 points as against 957.46 points. It went up by 3.22 points on Wednesday.
There were three price changes - two positive and one negative. British-American Tobacco (BAT) made five cedis at 625 cedis and UNIL gained 10 cedis to close at 2,210 cedis. Home Finance Company lost two cedis at 950 cedis.
Market capitalisation was up slightly to close at 3,907.82 billion cedis compared to 3,906.97 billion cedis on Wednesday.
Below are the closing prices of the listed equities in cedis:
ABL 320
AGC 18,800
ALW 4,300
BAT 625 +5
CFAO 60
EIC 3,000
FML 1,000
GBL 1,300
GCB 1,500
GGL 900
HFC 950 -2
MGL 240
MLC 142
MOGL 20,000
PAF 800
PBC 450
PZ 1,000
SCB 20,500
SPPC 297
SSB 2,300
UNIL 2,210 +10
CMLT 430
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