Daily Market Brief
Equities prices rose marginally by 0.5% on average as measured by the Nairobi all share index (NASI). NSE 10, NSE 20 and NSE 25 counters all recorded an improvement of 0.7%, 0.7% and 0.9% respectively.
Shares traded dropped by 33.4% from 35.70Mn to 23.77Mn shares constituting to the day’s turnover contracting by 40.1% to KES 734.87Mn. Heavy activity remained on the banking sector with the sector having a 1.2% improvement on average.
Equity Group was the top mover of the day with KES 363.81Mn in turnover after 6.01Mn shares changed hands. Safaricom emerged second with a turnover of KES 200.46Mn whereas Sameer secured the 3rd position with a turnover of KES33.59Mn.
Foreign activities surged from 41.3% to 43.1% with net foreign inflows dropping from 254.54Mn to KES 125.38Mn.
Secondary bonds’ turnover contracted by 8.4% from KES 14.89Bn to KES13.64Bn.FXD1/2021/25yrs, one of the recent December papers, was the most traded.
The Central Bank of Kenya re-opened two papers for January 2026 primary auction, FXD1/2019/020 (13.2-years, 12.873% coupon) and FXD1/2022/025 (21.8-years, 14.188% coupon), targeting KES 60 billion for budgetary support. At the same time, they announced a Switch of KES 20.00Bn from FXD1/2016/010 (0.6-years, 15.0390% coupon) to FXD1/2022/015 (11.3-years, 13.9420% coupon) in a move that is seen to re-structure its debts.
