BSE fine-tunes tracking of shares performance

Friday, January 29, 2016

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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BSE fine-tunes tracking of shares performance

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.

42 out of 45 bodies of Limpopo bus crash victims identified

Selefu

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