{"id":13110,"date":"2025-09-12T09:14:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T09:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=13110"},"modified":"2025-09-12T09:14:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T09:14:38","slug":"ghana-stock-exchange-records-87-drop-in-august-trading-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=13110","title":{"rendered":"Ghana Stock Exchange records 87% drop in August trading activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Market activity on the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) contracted sharply in August 2025, as both volumes and values traded declined from July\u2019s levels.<\/p>\n<p>Per latest data from the local bourse, a total of 45.90 million shares worth GHS 203.63 million exchanged hands during the month\u2014representing an 87.19% slump in volume and an 88.23% drop in value compared to July.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the month-on-month pullback, trading momentum remains stronger than last year. On an annual basis, volumes surged 105.54%, while value traded rose 15.76%.<\/p>\n<p>Year-to-date, the market has recorded 555.02 million shares valued at GHS 2.87 billion, reflecting a 14.98% dip in volume but a striking 123.00% increase in value relative to the same period in 2024.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_ad jeg_ad_article jnews_content_inline_2_ads  \">\n<div class=\"ads-wrapper align-center \">\n<div class=\"ads_shortcode\">\n<div class=\"a-single a-10\">The numbers suggest investors are tilting toward higher-value transactions, even as overall activity moderates.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Indices Show Mixed Fortunes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The equities market delivered a split performance in August. The GSE Composite Index (GSE-CI) climbed 4.84% to close at 7,330.37 points, extending its year-to-date gain to 49.95%.<\/p>\n<p>However, the GSE Financial Stock Index (GSE-FSI) slipped 0.44% to 3,411.96 points, though it remains up 43.31% since the start of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Market activity on the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) contracted sharply in August 2025, as both volumes and values traded declined from July\u2019s levels. Per latest data from the local bourse, a total of 45.90 million shares worth GHS 203.63 million exchanged hands during the month\u2014representing an 87.19% slump in volume and an 88.23% drop in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123457,"featured_media":13111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3525,3949,41],"tags":[2249,4044],"class_list":["post-13110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-economy","category-exchange-rate","category-general-news","tag-economy","tag-exchange-rate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/123457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13112,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13110\/revisions\/13112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}