BSE fine-tunes tracking of shares performance

New BSE CEO Thapelo Tsheole
New BSE CEO Thapelo Tsheole

The Botswana Stock Exchange (BSE) is effecting changes to the methodologies used in measuring shares performance, a move analysts say will ensure that market indices are more reflective of the bourse’s trends.

Effective Monday (February, 01), the BSE says it will discontinue the computation and reporting of a metric called “ Weighted Price”.

The weighted price, which is calculated by computing the volume weighted average price of stocks using the last five trades of a security on the BSE, was being factored in determining the main indices that measure shares’ performance.

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It is not uncommon in this part of the world for parents to actually punish their children when they show signs of depression associating it with issues of indiscipline, and as a result, the poor child will be lashed or given some kind of punishment. We have had many suicide cases in the country and sadly some of the cases included children and young adults. We need to start looking into issues of mental health with the seriousness it...

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