admindown 0,4 percent or 0,76 points to 189,85 points while the mining index gained 2,9 percent driven by a US5c gain in RioZim.
Daily revenue was down from US$5,3 million recorded on Wednesday with about 11 million shares traded to US$2,1 million from about 12,3 million shares traded.
Selling pressure in Econet, the second biggest company on the ZSE in terms of value, saw the price falling by US3c to US73,99c in deals worth US$460 988. At its best Econet traded at 77c.
Innscor dropped US4,47c to 90,03c after publishing its December interims where revenue of US$337,8 million was lower than US$345 million that the market had projected.
An interim dividend of US0,80c was also declared, up from US0,75c in the corresponding period.
Associate company Colcom was unchanged at US25c while the other, National Foods, was buyers only at US143c. Both companies released their interims yesterday.
Colcom profits dropped to US$1,1 million compared with US$2,6 million in the corresponding period while Natfoods attributable profits rose to US$7,6 million from US$3,6 million.
An interim dividend of US3c was declared from US1,2c a year ago. PPC lost US10c to US270c despite reports that the group had secured US$200 million to build a second plant with an annual capacity of one million tonnes in Mount Darwin.
Turnall shed US0,5c to US5,5c. BAT advanced US4,99c to another record high of US730c, CBZ was US1c firmer at US15c while TSL advanced US0,20c to US19,2c.
Astra, which is reportedly set to be controlled by a consortium of local Indian investors, recovered US0,15c to US5,75c.
Delta advanced US2,10c to US120,10c and Fidelity Life was up US0,50c to US13,50c.
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