DEC 6, 2018: NOW UNDULATING GHANA STOCK EXCHANGE

Representing an improvement of sorts on recent daily decline in the Ghana Composite Index of the Ghana Stock Exchange, the GCI has been undulating since this week.

Down today, up tomorrow, on Thursday December 6, led to a GCI decline to 2608.42 from 2632.39 on Wednesday which was a rally  on Tuesday's 2607.76.

Earlier, the GCI had started the new week and month with a rally to 2645.35 that raised hopes of reverse of last week's continuous decline.

On Thursday, the decline was powered by 4 price drops and 2 gains with the drops being of higher margin as well.

Top decline was Total Ghana's GHs 0.05 per share as it closed at last deal price of GHs 4 per share compared to GHs 4.05 previously. However, bid price crashed further to GHs 3.5 per share hinting at possible more decline in near future.

Other price drops were Toluworks GHs 0.03 per share, Societe Generale's GHs 0.02 per share just like MTN Ghana.

TLW recorded exchange of only 50 units but this was at GHs 11.95 per share, down on Wednesday's GHs 11.98.

Much the same way, SOSEGH closed at last deal price of GHs 0.78 per share compared to previous GHs0.8 per share again although bid price closed further down at GHs 0.75 per share. In all 7000 of its shares were traded.

In the case of MTN only 2000 units were sold with last deal at GHs 0.78 per share as against GHs 0.8 previously but both bid and offer price closed at GHs0.75 and 0.79 per share respectively.

CAL Bank was the top gainer and volume for the day. It witnessed exchange of 801,300 shares with last deal at GHs 0.95 per share which incidentally was previous day's closing price as well. 

However, it eventually rose by GHs 0.03 per share to close at GHs0.98 per share after the offload was over.

Finally, Produce Buying Company closed up GHs0.01 per share to GHs 0.05 per share after the last deal struck for the day was at GHs0.04 per share. In all 4500 shares were thus exchanged.


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