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LUCAS STOCK INDEX
The Lucas Stock Index (LSI) recorded a gain of 0.33 percent in the first week of trading in the year 2013.  While four stocks traded, only the stocks of Banks DIH (DIH) recorded a gain which amounted to 2.37 percent.  The stocks of Demerara Bank Limited (DBL), Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) and Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (BTI) remained unchanged.
LUCAS STOCK INDEX The Lucas Stock Index (LSI) recorded a gain of 0.33 percent in the first week of trading in the year 2013. While four stocks traded, only the stocks of Banks DIH (DIH) recorded a gain which amounted to 2.37 percent. The stocks of Demerara Bank Limited (DBL), Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) and Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (BTI) remained unchanged.

Small, but useful

Small Flame As Guyanese gradually settle into the New Year and the trading season for 2013 gets on the way, it is a good time to review the performance of the Guyana Stock Exchange (GSE) during 2012. 

Legal booksellers wary about piracy’s end

Legitimate importers of school texts are almost certain to take “a cautious line” as far as the number of texts imported for the forthcoming school year is concerned since there is no certainty that last September’s court ruling prohibiting the publication and sale of ‘pirated’ school books in Guyana will guarantee the cessation of the practice, Proprietor of Austin’s Bookstore Lloyd Austin has told Stabroek Business.

Average Wholesale & retail Prices at Rural and Urban Markets

(Prepared by the Guyana Marketing Corporation and published by Stabroek Business as a public service)*Prices only represent the average Wholesale Farmgate and Retail Prices at the above mentioned markets and are NOT prices set by the Guyana Marketing Corporation or Ministry of Agriculture.

Republic Bank commits to Empretec’s venture out

Citing what it says have been “positive results and evident business growth and success among participants, Republic Bank Guyana Ltd has announced that it will further extend its support for EMPRETEC’s Venture Out For Women 2013 programme, by facilitating a total of $1 million in collateral-free loan prizes to the three participants in this year’s programme with the best business proposals. 

Ground handling operations at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri

Perception of airport as ‘soft target’ for drug smuggling a threat to private sector

Unless government and the private sector work together to ensure that the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri, ceases to be regarded as an exit port through which illegal drugs can easily be smuggled, the private sector could be denied important international markets, Chief Executive Officer of Roraima Airways Inc Captain Gerry Gouveia told Stabroek Business earlier this week.

Head of Safeway Security Ian Caesar

Security service provider concerned over practices in sector

The head of a local security company has criticised what he says are practices in the sector which he believes are not only unfair and take advantage of consumers’ unfamiliarity with hi-tech security equipment but also compromise the security of the people and property this equipment is intended to protect.

‘IMF pact not our salvation’

(Jamaica Observer) Gordon  ‘Butch’ Stewart on Wednesday urged Jamaicans to hold each other’s hands and face the challenges of 2013 in an exemplary spirit of unity and teamwork.

Stock market updates

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 492’s trading results showed consideration of $1,077,240 from 41,742 shares traded in 4 transactions as compared to session 491 which showed

Hastening the Georgetown/ Port-of-Spain food security initiative

After the visit here in November by Trinidad and Tobago Food Production Minister Devant Maraj an announcement had been made to the effect that the governments of the two Caricom countries would sign a Memorandum of Understanding within a matter of days of the visit that would address the details of a collaborative food production initiative involving the two countries.

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