Daily Market Brief
Stocks prices further rose 0.4% on Thursday, 25th September as all the price tracking indices turned up. NSE 10 stocks rose the most mat 0.6% followed y NSE 25 and NSE 20 with 0.5% and 0.4% gains respectively.
Shares trade dropped 28.1% from 63.00Mn to 45.29Mn shares to pull down the day’s turnover 14.9% down from KES 2.00Bn to KES 1.70Bn. Market focus remained on the Banking sector which moved KES 1.18Bn from 20.43Mn shares to account for 69.4% and 45.1% of the market value and activity respectively.
KCB Group retained top the day’s top mover position with KES 671.73Mn, 56.4% lower from that of KES 1,539.45Mn it moved on mid-week, supported by heavy local attention in the lending Group. The Group’s price dropped marginally at 0.9% to KES 57.00 per share.
Average foreign activity remained low with a slight improvement from 6.4% to 10.o%
Secondary bonds value traded slowed down 13.4% from KES 14.66Bn to KES 12.69Bn, still supported by the recently re-opened papers. The number of deals closed dropped from 211 to 203 deals.
The re-opened IFB1/2022/19 issued in August 2025 emerged the day’s top mover with KES 2.49Bn followed by FXD1/2022/25 re-opened in September with KES 2.03Bn. This as investors from the primary continue cashing in from the secondary market premiums.
