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