Accra bourse gains 2.66 per cent on opening day

GNA – The Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) opened the week on a strong note on Monday with the main market indicator, the GSE All-Share index, appreciating by 278.23 points on the back of good performances of two financial stocks.
     The index closed up by 278.23 points at 5,900.41 points from Friday’s figure of 5,622.18 points.
     Change for the year to date was better by 2.66 per cent at -43.44 per cent from -46.10 per cent on Friday.
     Traded volumes opened the week at 206,600 shares from Friday’s close of 1,237,700.
     Market capitalization appreciated to GH¢15,627.55 million from GH¢15,424.96.69 million.
     There were four price changes – three up and one down.
     Ecobank Ghana continued its surge with GH¢0.08 to close GH¢3.01; Ecobank Transnational was also better by GH¢0.02 at GH¢0.17; and SG-SSB gained GH¢0.06 at GH¢0.46. Ghana Commercial Bank, however, lost GH¢0.02 at GH¢0.80

The following are the closing prices of equities in Ghana cedis

Equities     Share Code     Closing Price in GH cedis

Accra Brewery Ltd                 ABL      0.12
Anglo Gold Ashanti                AGA     30.00
Aluworks Limited                  ALW      0.50
Ayrton Drug Man. Ltd.            AYRTN     0.15 
Benso Oil Palm Plantation         BOPP     0.60
Cal Bank Limited                  CAL      0.25  
CFAO Ghana Limited               CFAO      0.05 
Clydestone Ghana Ltd             CLYD      0.08
Camelot Ghana Limited            CMLT      0.16
Cocoa Processing Com Ltd          CPC      0.05
Ecobank Ghana Ltd                 EBG      3.01 +0.08 
Enterprise Insurance Co. Ltd      EIC      2.50 
Ecobank Transnational Inc.        ETI      0.17 +0.02 
Fan Milk Limited                  FML      4.10 
Ghana Commercial Bank Ltd         GCB      0.80 -0.02
Guinness Ghana Breweries Ltd     GGBL      1.26 
Ghana Oil Company                GOIL      0.15 
Golden Star Resources            GSR       3.10 
Golden Web Ltd                   GWEB      0.05
HFC Bank Ltd                     HFC       0.62
Mechanical Lloyd Co. Ltd         MLC       0.20
Pioneer Kitchenware Ltd          PKL       0.07
Produce Buying Company           PBC       0.20     
PZ Cussons Ghana Ltd             PZ        1.10 
Standard Chart. Bank Gh. Ltd     SCB      29.00
SIC Insurance Company Limited    SIC       0.23 
Starwin Products Limited         SPL       0.05  
Super Paper Products Co. Ltd    SPPC       0.10
SG-SSB Limited                 SG-SSB      0.46 +0.06
Sam Woode Limited                SWL       0.03
Trust Bank Ltd (Gambia)          TBL       1.33
TOTAL Petroleum Ghana Ltd       TOTAL      7.50
Transaction Solutions Gh. Ltd   TRANSOL    0.11
Unilever Ghana Ltd               UNIL        3.42 
UT Financial Services             UT    0.17 
AngloGold Ashanti Depository Shares AADS    0.31 
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