According to the Weekly Market Report of the trading week ending on 31st January, 2014 issued by CORE Securities, a leading Tanzanian licensed stockbroker, the Dar Es Salaam Stock Exchange turnover decreased by -41 % to 665.43 million from 1,125.82 million the previous week.
Both local and foreign investors participated in the market. Foreign Investors participated by 13.37% while Local Investors by 86.63%.
On Friday 31 January 2014 the DSEI (ASI) closed at 1,923.57 (-1.31%), TSI Closed at 2,919.67 (+0.43%), IA closed at 3,461.05 (-0.45%) and BI Closed at 2,648.55 (+2.16%) points.
Most of activities were seen on TBL, NMB, & CRDB counters.
Government Securities
Last Treasury Bills auction was done on 29 January 2014 with a total of 46 successful bids for a value of 107,325.90 million.
Government Bonds
A seven year T-bond worth 2.25 and a ten year T-bond worth 5.1 billion 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
On Friday 31 January 2014 Closing Spot gold Price was up by +2.82% to 2.028 million per ounce (1 ounce = 31.10 grams).
Forex
On the week close Friday 24th January 1USD=TZS1,614.13.
Inflation
The annual headline inflation rate for the month of December 2013 decreased to 5.60% from 6.2% in the previous month (November 2013).
The full copy of CORE Securities Market Report is made available by TanzanaInvest.com:
http://tanzaniainvest.com/downloads/Tanzania-Weekly-Market-Report-20-24-Jan-2014.pdf
