Daily Market Brief
Stocks prices edged up 0.3% on Thursday, the second last trading day of the month of August 2025.NSE 10 gained the most at 0.5% followed by NSE 25 and NSE 20 with 0.4% and 0.1% upticks, respectively.
Shares traded were up 12.5% from 27.00Mn to 30.38Mn shares to push the day’s turnover 41.5% from KES 327.60Mn to KES 463.47Bn. Equity Group rallied the Banking sector after trading KES 110.44Mn after changing hands 1.97MN shares.
Foreign activity nearly doubled up from 18.0% to 30.2% with a 184.3% surge in net foreign inflows to KES 151.31Mn. Secondary bonds value traded remained active to trade KES 15.05Bn, 30.8% lower from that of KES 21.75Bn traded on Tuesday, 28th August 2025. The re-opened IFB1/2022/19 and IFB1/018/15, re-opened in August 2025 emerged the day’s top movers.
The National Treasury re-opened three papers, FXD1/2018/020(12.5-years) of 13.200% coupon, FXD1/2022/025(22.2-years) of 14.188% coupon and SDB1/2011/030(15.5-years) of 12.000% coupon for September’s primary auction where the government seeks KES 60 billion in two separate auctions.
