BSE powers against economic contraction in 2025

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POWERING THROUGH: The BSE is cementing its role as the engine of the economy PIC MORERI SEJAKGOMO

The Botswana Stock Exchange’s (BSE) flagship platform, the Domestic Companies Index (DCI), rose 9.71 percent last year, adding more than P8 billion to the listed companies in a performance that defied the contraction in the economy.

The DCI rose by 12.2% in 2024, putting on more than P6 billion and again swimming against the three percent contraction in the economy that year.

Available figures show that in 2025, the DCI began the year in fits and starts, before picking up from April, and then climbing sharply in the fourth quarter.

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