points out that activity on the debt compartment of the regional stock exchange resulted in a total value of XOF 190801911 transactions for 18,965 securities traded.

"This flow is down 10% compared to the previous week of trading. Government bonds dominated the transactions of the week with the bond issue "ETAT SENEGAL 6.30%2015- 2025" (symbol: EOS. O7) which recorded 64.34% of trade.

The market capitalization fell by 0.50% to 5171086074132 XOF against 5196908212143 XOF on the Friday of the previous week," the document reads.

The public securities market closed this Friday, June 19 with the issuance of the Assimilable Bonds of the Treasury of the State of Côte d'Ivoire after that of the State of Burkina Faso on Wednesday, June 17, 2020.

"It is a global need of 50 Billion XOF (25 Billion put up for auction by each issuer) which recorded a participation of 20 investors. The total amount of bids is XOF 90.657 billion.

The issuers retained 60.67% of the bids, which leads to an excess of XOF 5 billion of the amount initially requested.

The auction of the State of Burkina recorded a subscription rate of 206.63% while that of Côte d'Ivoire was 156%, "details the same source.