According to the Weekly Market Report of the trading week ended on 30th August 2013 issued by CORE Securities, a leading Tanzanian licensed stockbroker, the Dar Es Salaam Stock Exchange total turnover increased by 25% to 4,681.26 million from 3,747.93 million the previous week.
Both local and foreign investors participated in the market. Foreign Investors participated by 5.42% while Local Investors by 94.58%.
On Friday 16th August the Dar es Salaam All Share Index (ASI) closed at 1611.49 (+0.25%), the Tanzania Share Index (TSI) closed at 1962.67 (+0.88%), the Industrial and Allied Index (IA) closed at 2163.38 (+3.33 %) and the Bank Finance and Investment Index (BI) closed at 1941.43 (-2.80%) points.
Most of activities were seen on TBL,TWIGA, NMB & CRDB counters.
Government Securities
Last Treasury Bills auction was done on 28th August 2013 with a total of 161 successful bids.
Government Bonds
A Five year T-bond worth 6.32 billion was recorded in secondary market, no T-bond for 10, 7 and 2 years were recorded in secondary market.
Unit Trust of Tanzania
Both Net Asset Value schemes (NAV) and fund size were flat edging up in comparison to last week activities.
Gold
Spot gold was up by +6.93% to 2.259 million per ounce (1 ounce = 31.10 grams) on Friday 30th August.
Inflation
The annual headline inflation for the month of June 2013 decreased to 7.6% from 8.3% as of May 2013. However inflation will decrease to a single digit in three month to come (IMF report).
The full copy of the Market Report is made available by TanzanaInvest.com:
http://tanzaniainvest.com/downloads/Tanzania-Weekly-Market-Report-26-30-Aug-2013.pdf
