THE Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange (DSE) indices started the second month of the current quarter in green, with foreign investors’ 2.2bn/- net sell.

The daily market report shows Tanzania Share Index (TSI) closed the day at 4,752.30 points an increase of 8.92 points, while all share index (DSEI) and Bank, Finance & Investment gained by 1.65 points and 29.53 points respectively.

The gaining of the share indices resulted from appreciations of share prices in three counters including CRDB (1.45 percent), KCB (2.44 percent) and Nation Media Group (3.85 percent) while losers were EABL and NICO counters.

A total turnover of 3.6bn/- was recorded during the opening of the week, following the transaction of 1.45 million shares traded in 988 deals.

Top movers were CRDB counter, which recorded the transactions of 872,940 shares valued 612m/-, traded at a price ranging from 690/- to 710/- per share in 618 deals, followed by TCC counter, which recorded the transaction of 300,120 shares valued 1.8bn/-, of which 300,110 were traded through block trade pre-arranged market board at a price of 17,000 per share.

The third top mover was NMB counter, which transacted 216,702 shares valued 1.2bn/-, of which 200,000 share were traded through pre-arranged block trade, at a price of 5,850/- per share.

Other active counters during the day were Afriprise, DCB, DSE, MBP, MCB, NICO, PAL, TBL, TCCL, TPCC, and VODA.

The report shows local investors dominated the buying activity, as shares they bought accounted for 93.92 percent of total value of shares purchased, while foreign investors dominated the selling activity as the amount of shares they sold accounted for 61.14 percent of total value of shares sold.

The report shows foreign investors have so far sold shares valued 15.5bn/- since the start of the first quarter of this year, which is equivalent to half of total shares they sold during the fourth quarter of last year.