MARKET DATA REVIEW: Capital within the context of local empowerment

>Back in 2010 two pieces of legislation (Mining Act of 2010 and the Electronic and Postal Communication Act of 2010) were passed by our Parliament and got signed by the president with all the optimism that these laws entailed to fulfill, including some of the dream of local citizens, especially the aspect of the requirement that companies with Special Mining Licences and those operating in the telecommunication sector will be required to offer shares to the public and subsequently list on...

TheCitizen

Habari Zinazoendana

11 years ago

TheCitizen

25 Mar

MARKET DATA REVIEW: Privatisation as vehicle for promoting capital market

>Privatisation is the process of transferring ownership of a business, enterprise, agency, public service, or public property from the public sector (a government) to the private sector.

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

08 Dec

MARKET DATA REVIEW : Capital market as tool of financing our projects

There are two major encouraging statements that came to our attention recently, these statements came from the government: (i) the possibility of repossession of previously privatised state owned entities that were sold to some investors; and (ii) state owned entities, agencies and parastatals are now required to refocus on becoming more efficient and raise their financial needs from the local financial market.

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

22 Dec

MARKET DATA REVIEW : Why capital markets development is important

Since the enactment of the Capital Markets and Securities (CMS) Act, Cap. 79 of 1994 and the establishment of the Capital Markets and Securities Authority (CMSA) in 1996, there has been several developments in the Capital markets in Tanzania.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

18 Mar

MARKET DATA REVIEW: How small-scale enterprises can access capital

>Over the past few months, we have informed and developed arguments as to why and how private enterprises and the public sector can access funding from the public through an organised local capital markets for their growth, development and welfare.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

30 Dec

MARKET DATA REVIEW: Raising company’s capital by issuing shares

>Why does a company issue shares? Why would the founders of businesses be willing to share the business profits and business secrets with other people when they could keep these profits and secrets to themselves?

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

25 Aug

MARKET DATA REVIEW : On becoming stock exchange for local community

Recently, the Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange (DSE) has been taking specific measures to address some of our specific local needs and challenges – it doesn’t serve better for any of us that after more than 15 years since the operationalization of the stock exchange in our economy, it remains just a superfluous high level concept, neither has it been understood nor efficiently used by our local communities to address some of their long-term capital needs on one side or investment...

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

29 Dec

MARKET DATA REVIEW : Case for govt role in capital markets development

There are only 15 domestic companies listed in our local stock exchange; this number stands unfavourably when compared to over 30 companies listed in Ghana, over 60 companies in Kenya, over 250 companies in Nigeria, over 360 companies in Egypt and over 450 in South Africa.

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

01 Sep

MARKET DATA REVIEW : Long-term capital for national development on focus

If one takes a good look into our economy, it is relatively easy to notice that there are five main sources from which our finances for investment activities are ultimately derived from.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

30 Jun

MARKET DATA REVIEW: Fundamental analysis on investment in shares

>If an investor had invested similar amount of money across 14 domestic listed companies on the Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange (DSE), the annualized capital gain return would have been 4.5 per cent. As the table below indicates – share valuation for some companies have grown up above 30 per cent while a few companies have lost – these are the normal workings of the market.

 

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