Daily Market Brief
Stock prices rose marginally by 0.8% on mid-week, Wednesday 17th December 2025, with NSE 10 and NSE 20 improving by 1.0% each. NSE 25 recorded a 1.3% gain while banks grew by 1.8% on average.
Shares traded surged by 34.5% from 17.55Mn to 23.61Mn shares constituting to a jump of more than a half in turnover from KES 528.50Mn to 822.24Mn.
Safaricom emerged as the top mover with a turnover of KES 381.90Mn. Equity Group and Stan-Chart took 2nd and 3rd mover positions with KES 276.56Mn and KES 33.68Mn turnovers, respectively.
Foreign activities spiked to 35.3% from 15.3% with a growth in net foreign outflow to KES 183.68Mn from a net foreign inflow of KES 34.15Mn. Net foreign inflows were noted on KCB Group while heavy net foreign outflows happened on Safaricom, Equity Group, EABL and I&M Group.
Secondary bonds’ turnover diminished by 5.4% to KES 14.70Bn from KES 15.55Bn .FXD1/2022/25Yr was the most traded with a turnover of KES 3.14Bn as its yield moved from 13.6360% to 13.3911% against its accepted yield of 14.1423% in the primary market in September.
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).
