BSE in the red as blue chips soften

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Poor performance of large capitalised counters at the Botswana Stock Exchange (BSE) has pulled down the Domestic Companies Index (DCI) by 4.67% in the first half of the year.

Garry Juma of Motswedi Securities indicated that this is in sharp contrast to the 11.6% gain during the same period in 2015.

He revealed that four of the large cap counters; Letshego, Choppies, First National Bank Botswana (FNBB) and Standard Chartered Bank, whose shares dominate the domestic board, went down by 14.1%, 9.1%, 11% and 27.7% respectively.

Editor's Comment
Depression is real; let's take care of our mental health

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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