Mid-week stock market index falls by 0.5%

Trading at the Ghana Stock Market session ended with transactions recorded in 12 equities with six price changes.

As a result the benchmark Ghana Stock Exchange composite index rose by 0.08 per cent to close at 1,806.4 points.

The GSE Financial Stock Index also inched up by 0.1 per cent to close at 1,693.5 points, market analysis paper made available to the Ghana News Agency in Accra said.

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The gainers were led by Produce Buying Company Ltd which added a quarter (+25 per cent) to its value to close at GH¢0.05 per share, whiles GCB edged 2.1 per cent to close at GH¢3.45 per share.

Stanchart bounced back to gain 0.1 per cent to close at GH¢14.23 per share. The laggards were Mechanical Lloyd which declined 5.9 per cent to close at GH¢0.16 per share, followed by HFC which lost 5.3 per cent to close at GH¢0.71 per share.

GOIL trimmed 0.7 per cent to close at GH¢1.37 per share.

According to the report, volume traded was 65,992 shares which were valued at GH¢108,128.74.

Source: GNA