Daily Market Brief
Stock prices edged down in the second last trading day of September, 29th September 2025, shedding 0.7% on average. NSE 10 lost 0.5% as NSE 20 and NSE 25 lost 0.5% each.
Shares traded further dropped 41.5% from 20.80Mn shares traded on Friday to 12.17Mn shares to pull down the day’s turnover at 66.7% from KES 454.62Mn to KES 151.47Mn. This is even as the market attention remained on the banking sector with KES 59.72Mn turnover followed by the energy and the manufacturing sectors.
EABL emerged the day’s top mover with KES 21.83Mn after trading 102,031MN shares.
Foreign activity remained low with a slight improvement from a low of 6.2% to 7.3% on average.
Secondary bonds value traded dropped 4.3% from KES 14.59Bn to KES 13.97Bn impacted by the re-opened FXD1/2018/015 (7.7 years) and FXD1/2021/020 (15.9-years) papers for October’s primary auction, set for 15th October 2025.
The FXD1/2018/20, re-opened in September 2025, emerged the day’s top mover with KES 5.25Bn after its yield to maturity declined by 61.9bps from 13.5000% to 12.8808%. This is as investors from the primary cash in as rates narrow down.
