Foreign investors dominates DSE trading
BY
MNAKU MBANI
Foreign investors are continuing to dominate trading
activities at the Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange (DSE) which has also helped to
improve the market turnover. The DSE market reports have shown that foreign investors
are currently accounting for more than 90 of the market activities, mainly on
the buying side, while local investors are leading in selling their shares.The DSE has reposted that during January and February
this year, number of foreign investors a total turnover of Tsh31 million were
recorded, but Tsh30 billion were from foreign investors’ involvement.
During the fourth quarter of last year, out of Tsh82
turnover recorded, foreign investors participation recorded a turnover of Tsh78
billion and local investors only contributed Tsh5 billion of the total
turnover..
Even during the first quarter of last year, out of a
total turnover of Tsh122 billion recorded, Tsh114 billion were contributed by
foreign investors, which is more than 80 per cent.
During last week, the DSE report shows that a total
turnover of Tsh8.6 billion were recorded from 1.2 million shares from Tsh228
million obtained the previous week from 257,000 shares sold.
The report shows that out of the weekly total turnover, shares
worth of Tsh8.5 billion were bought by foreign investors, which is more than 97
per cent.
DSE marketing and product manager Patrick Mususa said the
improvement of trading activities has also caused the increase of the market capitalization
to Tsh19.1 trillion from Tsh18.5 trillion at the end of January this year.
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