Ghana: Stock Market Closes with five gainers

Trading activity at the week’s opening session closed on a positive note with gains in five equities lifting the market indices higher.

Total Petroleum led the movers adding 4GHp to close at GH¢18.21. Fan Milk followed with a 2GHp gain to close at GH¢2.63 while GOIL which was the most traded stock climbed to 53GHp. The two other gainers inched up a pesewa each. PZ Cussons climbed to 19GHp while SIC Insurance closed trading at 35GHp.

In all seventeen equities had their shares being traded in with a total of 235,992 shares valued at GH¢294,811 being recorded.

With these changes, the benchmark Composite Index closed the session up by 1.62 points to close at 1,028.35, bringing its year to date return to 6.12%. The Financial Index also climbed 0.51 points to close at 865.79.

 

Via Merban Brokers