21% foreign investment in Tunisian stock market

The Tunisian stock market is currently planning to develop its performance through training personnel and technical improvements. The Tunisian stock market witnessed an obvious growth at the beginning of the current year as the number of registered companies increased to 24 with the participation of six new companies and 1.8 million new shares so that value of the stock market shares increase to $3.3 billion dinars in comparison to $2.4 billion at the end of 1998, while the percentage of foreign contributions reached 21% in these shares, topped by French, Italian and Saudi investors.