Turnover at the Nairobi Securities Exchange(NSE) rose by 10% to settle at KSh 780.85 Million when trading at the bourse closed on Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020.
This is on a volume of 24.65 Million shares from 893 deals compared to a turnover of KSh 710.84 Million, volume of 22.6 Million shares in 812 deals on Tuesday, 1st December, 2020.
The biggest mover was Safaricom with a volume of 13.89 Million, followed by Equity Group(8.55 Million), KPLC(936,300), KenGen(272,600) and Nairobi Business Ventures(133,600).
Safaricom share price was up 2.01% to KSh 32.95 from KSh 32.30 in 198 deals that had 73.4% domination by foreign investors, resulting in a turnover of KSh 457.79 Million.
With an overall market capitalization of KSh 2.2 Trillion, the bearish NSE recorded a total of18 gainers and 15 losing counters.
Liberty Kenya Holdings Plc was the top price gainer, rising up 7.92% to KSh 7.36. It was followed by East African Portland Cement Company which was up7.27% to KSh 11.80.
Diamond Trust Bank Kenya gained 6.48% to close at KSh 65.75 while Eveready East Africa was up 2.80% to trade at KSh 1.10.WPP ScanGroup was the 5th top price gainer, the share price rising 2.03% to KSh 6.04.
The worst performers at the NSE were led by Home Afrika, which lost 5% to KSh 0.38, Carbacid Investments was down 4.30% to KSh 12.25. Absa Bank lost 4.295 to trade at KSh 9.36, Olympia Capital was down 3.04% to settle at KSh 2.23 while Nairobi Business Ventures slowed down 2.26% to trade at KSh 5.20.
The benchmark NSE All-Share Index gained 1.83 points to close at 146.22 from 144.39 while the NSE 20 Share Index gained 8.81 points to close at 1760.98 from 1752.17. The NSE 25 Share Index edged up 27.8 points to settle at 3282.34.
The secondary bond market had bonds worth KSh 1.63 billion transacted in 38 deals on the Fixed income segment. This is compared to KSh 1.83 billion worth of bonds during the previous session.
