Daily Market Brief
Stock prices were up marginally on Thursday, 19th June 2025, with a 0.2% average gain, supported by a rise in market activities. NSE 10 and NSE 25, however, lost 0.3% and 0.2%, respectively, while the NSE 20 remained stable.
Shares traded jumped 40.6% up from 19.62Mn to 27.59Mn shares to double the day’s value traded at 1018.8% from KES 275.26Mn to KES 602.14Mn. Safaricom retained the day’s top mover position with KES 227.20Mn after trading 9.59Mn shares of KES 227.20Mn turnover.
Average foreign activity jumped up from 17.6% to 42.8% with an acceleration in net foreign inflows from KES 4.82MN to KES 53.03Mn. Heavy foreign inflows were also on Safaricom, Stanbic and Equity Group in that order.
The secondary bonds market value traded improved 38.2% from KES 12.46Bn to KES 17.22Bn on high value tickets exchanged to defy the 25.0% drop in the day’s transactions. Number of deals traded were 177 compared to 236 deals traded in mid-week.
The FXD1/2021/05 topped in the secondary bonds trading after trading KES 7.02Bn as its yield moved up 25.0bps from 10.400% to 10.650%. This is even as the market remains starved of short-term papers.
