Daily Market Brief
Equities prices rose marginally on Friday, 26th September 2025 at 0.1% average growth. NSE 10 gained the most at 0.2% followed by NSE 20 and NSE 25 with 0.1% gains each. Week on week, the prices were up 2.5% as measured by the Nairobi all share index (NASI) which gained 4.39 points to 177.89 points, watch out for our weekly performance summary.
Shares traded dropped by over half from 45.29Mn to 20.80MN shares to pull down the day’s value traded at 73.3% down to KES 454.62Mn. Heavy activity remained on the banking sector which moved KES 283.19Mn or 632.3% of the market value.
Standard Chartered Bank emerged the day’s top mover with KES 156.33MN after trading 548,514 shares whose price stabilized at KES 285.00 per share.
Foreign activity reversed down from to 10.0% to a low of 6.2%
Secondary bonds value traded improved at by 14.9% from KES 12.69Bn to KES 14.59Bn supported by increased bond activity from 203 deals to 230 deals. This was largely supported by increased market activities on the recently re-opened papers. IFB1/2022/19 re-opened in August 2025 emerged the day’s top mover with KES 2.62Bn followed by FXD1/2018/25 with KES 2.42Bn, see page 2 for more.
The Central Bank of Kenya, acting as the government’s fiscal agent, re-opened two papers, FXD1/2018/015 (7.7 years to maturity) and FXD1/2021/020 (15.9-years to maturity) for October’s auction, seeking KES 50 billion from the market. The paper’s auction date is scheduled for 15th October 2025.
