Zimbabwe: Holiday Slows Down Stocks

18 April 2012

THE Zimbabwe Stock Exchange benchmark index declined slightly yesterday ahead of Independence holiday on blue chip losses. After trades, the industrial index fell 0,5 percent or 0,71 to 132,22 points. Leading the fall was Radar, which lost US7,5c to US10c. Econet was down with US5c to US375c and Innscor lost US1,01c to US56,99c. DZHL declined by US0,95c to close the day at US17c cents.

But the losses were offset partly by gains in BAT which advanced by US5c to US195c and CFI which added 0,40c to US5,40c.

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