Daily Market Brief
Stock prices were further up 0.7% on Friday, 20th June 2025, as nearly all the listed sectors’ prices edged up. NASI and NSE 10 gained the most, at 0.7% each, followed by NSE 25 and NSE 20, which gained 0.6% and 0.5%, respectively. Week on Week, however, shares prices were down 1.3%.
Shares traded reversed down 66.2% from 27.59Mn to 9.32Mn shares to pull the value traded 77.4% down to KES 151.80Mn. The banking sector controlled the market with KES 99.64Mn turnover from 2.60Mn shares. Equity Group emerged the day’s top mover with KES 42.32Mn from 917,000 shares followed by Stan-Chart which 79,500 shares.
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 dropped 35.9% to KES 11.04Bn from KES 17.21BN traded on Thursday, June 19th. This was despite a 17.5% rise in the number of deals traded from 177 to 208 deals.
The FXD1/2012/15Yr topped in the secondary bonds market trading after trading KES 2.42Bn as its yield moved up 13.3bps from 10.550% to 10.683%.
