Daily Market Brief
Stocks were marginally up 0.3% on 13th January 2026, with major upticks on NSE 10 counters. NSE 10 and NSE 25 counters gained 0.3% and 0.2% respectively while NSE 20 stabilized at 3246.01 points. The banking sector edged up 0.1% on average.
Shares traded dropped by more than a half from 32.49Mn to 15.45Mn shares constituting to a 7.6% decline in the day’s turnover from KES 396.20Mn to KES 366.27Mn.
Safaricom retained the top mover position with KES 40.48Mn in turnover from 1.38Mn shares. Absa Bank came 2nd while Co-op Bank came 3rd with KES 39.65Mn and KES 36.31Mn in turnover respectively.
Foreign activity dipped to 16.7% with a net foreign outflow of KES 39.12Mn from KES 70.13Mn. Net foreign inflows happened on KCB Group while Equity Group and Safaricom recorded net foreign outflows.
Secondary bonds’ turnover soared by 267.5% to KES 28.17Bn as investors begin cashing in on the recently auctioned January 2026 papers. FXD1/2012/20yr was the most traded with a turnover of KES 12.12Bn as its yield moved from 12.4375% to 12.6202%.
The Central Bank of Kenya announced a Switch of KES 20.00Bn from FXD1/2016/010 (0.6-years, 15.0390% coupon) maturing on 17th August, 2026 to FXD1/2022/015 (11.3-years, 13.9420% coupon) in a move that is seen to re-structure its debts.
