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BSE powers against economic contraction in 2025

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

Editor's Comment
Batswana need to do better to stop FMD

It is a clear signal that the government’s purse is empty and that our own behaviour has left veterinary officials fighting with one hand tied behind their backs. We have been here before. During COVID-19, many of us thought we knew better. We ignored simple rules, we carried on as if the danger was someone else’s problem, and the virus took lives and left our economy on its knees. We are still broke from that experience. Yet now, with FMD...

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