Trading of bonds dips as corporates balk

Thin market: Moribame
Thin market: Moribame

Trading on the bond market as measured by total turnover dipped 70% in the first nine months of the year reflecting the shallowness of Botswana’s capital markets.

A recently released quarterly report by the Botswana Stock Exchange (BSE) showed that the value of bonds traded in the first three quarters of 2016 was P240.8 million in comparison to P751.1 million traded over the same period in 2015.

Market development manager at the bourse, Thapelo Moribame told Mmegi Business that the total bond turnover was a result of concentration of trading activity on one government bond, BW003.

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