Daily Market Brief
Stocks were marginally up 0.4% on 30th December 2025, with major upticks on NSE 10 counters. NSE 10 and NSE 25 gained 0.4% each followed by NSE 20 with a 0.3% growth. Banks were up 0.7% on average.
Shares traded more than doubled from 9.92Mn to 21.18Mn shares constituting to a 20.6% surge in the day’s turnover from KES 365.40Mn to KES 440.58Mn.
Safaricom emerged as the day’s top mover with KES 242.45Mn in turnover from 8.64Mn shares. Equity Group came 2nd while Co-op Bank came 3rd with KES 86.32Mn and KES 26.77Mn in turnover respectively.
Foreign activity rose to 21.9% with a net foreign inflow of KES 97.77Mn from a net foreign outflow of KES 66.53Mn. Net foreign inflows happened on Safaricom while Equity Group and Co-op Bank recorded net foreign outflows.
Secondary bonds’ turnover soared by 136.6% to KES 9.26Bn with an 18.4% jump in number of deals from 98 to 116 .FXD1/2021/25yr was the most traded with a turnover of KES 3.01Bn as its yield moved from 13.4600% to 13.2451%.
The Central Bank of Kenya re-opened two papers for January 2026 primary auction, FXD1/2019/020 (13.2-years, 12.873% coupon) and FXD1/2022/025 (21.8-years, 14.188% coupon), targeting KES 60Bn for budgetary support. At the same time, they announced a Switch of KES 20.00Bn from FXD1/2016/010 (0.6-years, 15.0390% coupon) to FXD1/2022/015 (11.3-years, 13.9420% coupon).
