The stock market of the WAEMU Regional Stock Exchange closed down this week with the BRVM C down 0.77% to 203.74 points and the BRVM 10 down 1.55% to 161.07 points. This week's underperformance is attributable to declines in the "Agriculture" (-7.68%), "Transport" (-1.89%), "Finance" (-1%) and "Distribution" (-0.10%) sectors. On the other hand, the sectors "Public Services", "Other Sectors" and "Industry" recorded increases of 0.07%, 1.36% and 2.48% respectively. As for the volume of transactions, they are up, contrary to the previous week, standing at 3 459 807 shares traded against 1 523 482. Ecobank Transnational Incorporated TOGO (ETI TOGO) dominates once again the exchanges by representing 88% of this volume. In terms of value, transactions fell by 59.79% to FCFA 1.83 billion compared to FCFA 4.54 billion last week; SONATEL representing 18% of this value followed by PALM CI (13%). In total, 17 stocks were up against 23 down, 4 stocks remained constant.
As for the BRVM bond market, it shows a market capitalization down by 43 million FCFA, or -0.51%. The global capitalization of bonds is 8 450 billion FCFA as of October 07, 2022. Bonds with the symbols TPCI.O70 and TPCI.O71 both represent 38% of the transactions in value, which increased by 113.07% to 52.25 billion FCFA.
