GSE index in marginal gain

Accra, July 20, GNA - The Ghana Stock Exchange made a marginal gain on Monday as the bourse continued to witness mixed fortunes on account of poor share price performance.

The GSE All-Share Index, the benchmark measure, was up marginally by 3.52 points at 7,073.60 points.

Change for the year to date stands at 99.06 points.

Total shares traded went up to 9,283,300 shares, thanks to a block trade in Accra Brewery Limited shares. The equity alone sold 8,912,100 shares.

On the broader market, there were four price changes - three positive and a negative.

Accra Brewery Limited gained five cedis at 1,305 cedis, Clydstone went up by 51 cedis at 1,051 cedis and Patterson Zochonis was 365 cedis richer to close at 4,015 cedis.

The only loser was Aluworks, which went down by 100 cedis to close at 12,100 cedis.

Market capitalisation was 97,107.47 billion cedis from 3,380.2 million shares.

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

ABL 1,305 +5 AGA 300,000 AADs 3,006 ALW 12,100 -100 BAT 7,800 CFAO 118 CLYD 1,051 +51 CMLT 780 CPC 1,950 EIC 3,612 FML 8,000 GBL 1,500 GCB 17,000 GGL 12,750 HFC 10,100 MGL 275 MLC 3,100 MOGL 42,110 PAF 800 PBC 3,600 PZ 4,015 +365 SCB 100,000 SPPC 390 SG-SSB 31,752 SWL 290 TBL 31,500 UNIL 25,500