According to the Weekly Market Report of the trading week ending on 7th March, 2014 issued by CORE Securities, named East Africa Best Advisory Brokerage by Capital Finance International, the Dar Es Salaam Stock Exchange total turnover increased by +776% to 4,411.11 million to 503.36 million the previous week.
Both local and foreign investors participated in the market. Foreign Investors participated by 30.84 % while Local Investors by 69.16%.
On Friday 7th March 2014 the DSEI (ASI) closed at 2,018.97 (+1.19%), TSI Closed at 2,913.40 (-0.51%), IA closed at 3,431.62 (-0.80%) and BI Closed at 2,674.27 (0.00%) points.
Most of activities were seen on TBL & CRDB counters.
Government Securities
Last Treasury Bills auction was done on 26th February 2014 with a total of 81 successful bids for a value of 182,105 million.
Government Bonds
A Seven year T-bond worth 2.25 & a ten years T-bond worth 5.1 billion recorded in secondary market, no T-bond for 10, 7 and 2 years 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.
On Friday 7 March Closing Spot gold Price was up by +6.94% to 2.188 million per ounce (1 ounce = 31.10 grams).
Forex
On the week close Friday 7th March 1USD=TZS1,621.49.
The annual headline inflation rate for the month of January 2014 increased to 6.0% from 5.6% in the previous month (Decembre 2013).
The full copy of CORE Securities Market Report is made available by TanzanaInvest.com:
http://tanzaniainvest.com/downloads/Tanzania-Weekly-Market-Report-3-7-MAR-2014.pdf
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