STOCK MARKET REVIEW

The Ghana Stock Exchange closed lower for the week on the back of price declines by 3 counters. The GSE Composite Index (GSE-CI) lost 3.87 points (-0.11%) for the week to close at 3,650.41 points, reflecting a year-to-date (YTD) gain of 16.62%.

The GSE Financial Stocks Index (GSE-FI) also lost 7.29 points (-0.36%) for the week closing at 2,037.06 points, reflecting a year-to-date (YTD) gain of 7.13%.

Market capitalization increased marginally by 0.04% to close the week at GH¢79,941.42 million, from GH¢79,908.14 million at the close of the previous week. This reflects a YTD gain of 8.19%.

The week recorded a total of 4,307,416 shares valued at GH¢9,577,672.19, compared with 992,584 shares, valued at GH¢3,549,039.44 traded in the preceding week.

MTNGH dominated both volume and value of trades for the week, accounting for 96.81% and 74.88% of volume and value of shares traded respectively. The market ended the week with 1 grower and 3 decliners as indicated in the table below.

 Source: Ghana Stock Exchange

CURRENCY MARKET

The Cedi continued its depreciation run against the USD for the week. It traded at GH¢13.6822/$, compared with GH¢13.4161/$ at week open, reflecting w/w and YTD depreciations of 1.94% and 13.17% respectively. This compares with a loss of 21.76% a year ago.             

The Cedi also depreciated against the GBP for the week. It traded at GH¢17.1178/£, compared with GH¢16.8392/£ at week open, reflecting w/w and YTD losses of 1.63% and 11.59% respectively. This compares with a depreciation of 24.50% a year ago.

The Cedi again retreated against the Euro for the week. It traded at GH¢14.7339/€, compared with GH¢14.4524/€ at week open, reflecting w/w and YTD depreciations of 1.91% and 10.91% respectively. This compares with a depreciation of 23.15% a year ago.         

The Cedi declined against the Canadian Dollar for the week. It opened at GH¢9.6449/C$ but closed at GH¢10.0122/C$, reflecting w/w and YTD depreciations of 2.09% and 10.00% respectively. This compares with a depreciation of 21.89% a year ago.

 Source: Bank of Ghana

GOVERNMENT SECURITIES MARKET

Government raised a sum of GH¢4,920.90 million for the week across the 91-Day, 182-Day and 364-Day Treasury Bills. This compared with GH¢3,465.27 million raised in the previous week.       

The 91-Day Bill settled at 25.20% p.a. from 25.45% p.a. last week whilst the 182-Day Bill settled at 27.00% p.a. from 27.40% p.a. last week. The 364-Day Bill settled at 28.00% p.a. from 28.00% p.a. last week.

The tables below highlight primary market activity at the close of the week.

Source: Bank of Ghana

Source: Bank of Ghana

COMMODITY MARKET

Oil prices closed slightly lower on signs of easing supply concerns, while market participants shifted their focus to U.S. stockpiles data. Brent futures traded at US$82.79 a barrel, compared to US$82.96 at week open, reflecting w/w loss and YTD appreciation of 0.20% and 7.46% respectively.

Gold prices rose, extending overnight gains as more signs of a cooling U.S. labor market weighed on the dollar and Treasury yields. Gold settled at US$2,375.00, from US$2,308.60 last week, reflecting w/w and YTD appreciations of 2.88% and 14.63% respectively.

The price of Cocoa increased for the week. Cocoa traded at US$8,891.00 per tonne on Friday, from US$8,145.00 last week, reflecting w/w and YTD gains of 9.16% and 111.89% respectively.

 International Commodity Prices

Source: www.investing.com

BUSINESS TERM OF THE WEEK

Qualified Dividend: A qualified dividend is an ordinary dividend reported to the IRS as a capital gain rather than income. Ordinary dividends are payments a public company makes to owners of its common stock or shares.

Source: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/q/qualifieddividend.asp

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