Heavies weigh the ZSE in Thursday’s trades…
Heavy cap counters weighed the ZSE in the penultimate session of the week, as the All Share Index fell by 1.45% to 469.38pts. The Blue Chip Index was 2.20% weaker at 471.90pts mainly weighed down by CBZ and Masimba. On the contrary the Agriculture Index advanced 1.36% to 348.22pts while, the Mid Cap Index was 1.89% higher at 488.64pts. Leading the laggards of the day was banking group CBZ that succumbed 15.00% to end trading at lower circuit breaker level of $34.0000. Packaging company Proplastics was 3.20% weaker ay $1.3400 while, tea producer Tanganda was 0.87% down at $4.5995. Construction group Masimba parred off 0.15% to $2.5000. Partially offsetting the losses was dairy producer Dairibord that is trading under a cautionary as it edged up 14.16% to $4.9000 while, brick producer Willdale advanced 13.77% to $0.0580. ZSE holdings garnered 12.12% to $1.8500 while, banking group TNCI was 12.07% firmer at $0.2803. Hotelier Rainbow Tourism Group rose by 6.42% to $1.6495.