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26 mln USD disinvested from Mauritius Stock Exchange in 2014: statistics

Xinhua, January 22, 2015 Adjust font size:

At least 26 million U.S. dollars was disinvested by foreign investors from the Mauritius Stock Exchange in 2014, statistics released Wednesday by the Bank of Mauritius have shown.

During the year, foreign investors bought shares worth 176 million dollars at the Mauritius Stock Exchange, but sold shares worth 202 million dollars.

Most of the sales occurred towards the end of the year, the bank said, adding that most share purchases happened in the month of May.

Statistics released early this year showed that Mauritius Stock Exchange posted record transactions in 2014, with total volumes of over 623 million U.S. dollars.

The figure represents a 30 percent increase when compared to the volume of transactions in the previous year which reached 476 million dollars. Endi