At the end of trading at the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE)yesterday, market turnover declined to KSh 266 Million. This is compared to KSh 355 Million when the bourse closed on Tuesday.
Safaricom maintained its dominance at the bourse trading shares worth KSh 125.9 Million at the price of KSh 27.95 per share.
It was followed by Equity which moved shares worth KSh 90. 2 Million at the price of KSh 29.35 per share.
Other big movers were ABSA New Gold ETF with a turnover of KSh 26.9 Million at the price of KSh 1,970. Its share price dropped by KSh 80 or 3.9%.
BG Group recorded a turnover of KSh 27 Million at a price of KSh 16.60 while EABL had a turnover of KSh 6.9 Million with its shares selling at KSh 152.00.
The share price of EABL settled at KSh 152.00, a rise of KSh 2.00 or 1.33%
Co-operative Bank of Kenya moved a volume of 133,700 shares at the price of KSh10.65, a rise of 1.91%.
Uchumi moved a volume of 313,600 shares at the price of 32 cents.
The NSE 20 share Index was up 18.25 points to settle at 1751.39. All Share Index NASI picked up 1.52 points to stand at 130.76. The NSE 25 Share Index added 26.64 points to settle at 2972.90.
The Derivatives Market had five contracts valued at KSh76,000 transacted in today’s trading session. Three East African Breweries contracts worth KSh46,000 expiring in 17th December 2020 were concluded at a price of KSh156.30.
This is against an end of day price of KSh152.00 posted in the spot market.
The Banking Sector had shares worth KSh126 Million transacted which accounted for 43.05% of the day’s traded value.
Equity was the top performer in this counter with shares worth KSh 90.2 Million followed by BK Group (KSh26.9Million) and KCB Group moving 157,000 shares worth KSh 5 Million and closed at KSh32.55.
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