Daily Market Brief
Stocks prices slowed down marginally at 0.1% on Tuesday, 19th August 2025. NSE 20 and NSE 10 however gained 0.4% and 0.1% respectively as NSE 25 remained stable.
Shares traded dropped 30.2% from 21.92MN to 15.29Mn shares to pull down the value traded 32.0% from KES 607.32Mn to KES 413.08Mn.
Foreign activity further dropped from 35.2% to 23.0% with a rise in net foreign inflows from KES 70.46Mn to KES 146.49Mn.
Secondary bonds market value traded improved at 103.1% from KES 6.29Bn to KES 12.88Bn as the number of deals jumped 61.3% up to 150 deals.
The National Treasury issued a tap-sale on August’s papers, IFB1/2018/15 (7.5-years) and IFB1/2022/19 (15.6-years) targeting KES 50.00Bn from the market. The sale runs from Tuesday, 19th August 2025 to Thursday, 21st August 2025 or upon attainment of quantum required.
