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.

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