Ghana stocks do well on banks

The GSE All-Share Index, the benchmark measure of performance of the Ghana Stock Exchange, continues its impressive run, closing the week up 53.51 points at 7,003.20 from 6,949.69 points.

The rise brings the gains so far this year to 25.68 per cent.

Six equities saw price changes, equally shares between the gainers and laggards.

Gainers for the session were Enterprise Group Limited (EGL), which was up by GH¢0.07 to close at GH¢0.53, Ghana Commercial Bank (GCB) went up by GH¢0.10 to close at GH¢2.15 and Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) rose GH¢0.50 cedis to GH¢45.

Laggards were Ghana Unilever Ghana (UNIL) was down by GH¢0.01 to close at GH¢5.55, Mechanical Llyod dipped GH¢0.02 to GH¢0.12 and Ghana Oil Limited (GOIL), which fell by GH¢0.01 at GH¢0.25.

A total of 4.6 million shares were traded, valued at GH¢941,553 million.

Market Capitalisation closed the session at GH20,011.43 million from GH¢19,970.08 million.

Source: GNA