Dar es Salaam, Jan. 20 -- THE Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange (DSE) debt market registered the historical total turnover that crossed one trillion shillings last year.

The total bond turnover increased by almost 94.49 per cent to 2.12tri/- last year compared to 1.09tri/- in 2019. The debt analysts believed that the surge was the combination of both limited investment avenues and raising awareness.

"I believe," Orbit Securities Head of Research and Analytics, Imani Muhingo said, "it's a combination of both, tightened investment avenues and increased awareness".

He added: "While, the former [limited avenues] has some influence on the latter".

The last year total turnover was almost two-third of the total turnovers in the last five years. ...