Nairobi Securities Exchange(NSE) recorded a significant drop in daily equity turnover by 68% to KSh 244.2 Million when trading ended today compared to a turnover of KSh 753.3 Million on Thursday this week.
The volume of shares traded also declined to 4.2 Million this Friday compared to 19.8 Million shares the previous trading period. The number of deals fell to 903 from 1063 posted yesterday.
NSE top and worst performers
HFCK was the day’s top gainer, its share price rising 6.73% to KSh 3.65 followed by Sasini which gained 6.44% to KSh 22.30; Sanlam Kenya which was up 4.76% to KSh 11.00; BAT which gained 3.49% to KSh 445.00 and Stanlib Fahari Income-REIT which gained 2.85% to KSh 6.50.
The worst performers were led by Unga which declined by 8.69% to KSh 33.10 followed by Carbacid Investments which fell by 5.91% to KSh 10.35; Umeme which lost 3.23% to trade at KSh 6.00; Diamond Trust Bank which declined by 2.92% to KSh 58.25 and Trans-Century which was down 2.29% to KSh 1.28.
Cooperative Bank was the day’s prime mover with a volume of 1.06 Million followed by EABL( 936,900), Safaricom( 413,900), Equity( 285,200) and Absa Bank Kenya( 251,900)
The benchmark NSE All Share Index was down 0.68 points to 167.94 while the NSE 20 Share Index gained 0.58 points to 1897.34. The NSE 25 index declined by 14.66 points to 3758.51.
The derivatives market had 69 contracts worth KSh 2,688,360 compared to 6 contacts worth KSh 200,350 at the end of the previous session.
The secondary bonds market had a turnover of KSh 1.7 Billion from 63 deals compared to a turnover of KSh 1.1 Billion from 87 deals at the previous session.
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