The Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) equity market maintained its positive run in October 2026, ending the month with the GSE Composite Index and the GSE Financial Stock Index returning 63.08% and 58.98%, respectively.Trading activity recorded 88,630 transactions, representing a 59.07% increase compared with the same period last year.The volume and value traded for the month were 68,622,135 shares and GH¢345,231,828.97, respectively, representing an increase of 55.52% in volume and 58.94% in value compared to the same period last year.The market recorded a year-to-date cumulative volume of 1,124,927,571 shares valued at GH¢5,684,813,419.12, representing an increase of 74.37% in volume and 73.66% in value compared to the same period last year.There were 13 top price gainers for the month. They were Cocoa Processing Co. PLC (35.71%), Meridian Marshalls Holdings Company (16.67%), Enterprise Group PLC (14.29%), TotalEnergies Marketing PLC (13.22%), AngloGold Ashanti Depositary Shares (9.52%), CalBank PLC (5.71%), GCB Bank PLC (5.20%), SIC Insurance Company PLC (4.17%), HORDS PLC (4.17%), Scancom PLC (3.85%), Intravenous Infusions PLC (1.89%0, Access Bank Ghana PLC (0.58%) and Kasapreko PLC (0.54%).The price losers were also 12 for the month.They were Ecobank Ghana PLC (-0.03%), Standard Chartered Bank PLC (-0.03), Fan Milk PLC (-0.07) Guinness Ghana Breweries PLC (-0.37), Unilever Ghana PLC (-1.25), Ghana Oil Company PLC (-2.83%), Clydestone (Ghana) PLC (-3.75%), Benso Palm Plantation PLC (-6.67), Societe Generale Ghana PLC ( -10.62%) Ecobank Transnational Inc. (-16.76%), Digicut Production & Advertising Plc (-17.02) and Dannex Ayrton Starwin Plc. (-19.13).Meanwhile, the Ghana Fixed Income Market (GFIM) closed the month with a volume traded of 48.13 billion, representing an increase of 65.25% compared to the same period last year.The year-to-date volume traded of 385.9 billion was 80.23% more than the 214.13 billion traded in the same period last year.