British American Tobacco Kenya Limited (BAT) was trading at KES 1000 as at 11.15 today on the Nairobi Securities Exchange. This was the second time the share has hit its all time high. The first time being last Friday. BAT's price has continuously gained in the last 6 months as illustrated below.

 As at 11.30 am today, the market was performing as follows:

The winners

Olympia Capital Holdings (OCH), Car  & General Kenya Limited (C&G), East African Cables Limited (CABL), Standard Group Limited (SGL) and BAT Kenya Limited are the companies whose share price had appreciated the most. East African Cables today on the dailies has announced the payment of an interim dividend of KES 0.50 per share. This will be paid on or about December 15th, 2014 to members on the shareholders' register on the close of business on November 17th, 2014.

The losers

Trans-century Limited (TCL), Sameer Africa Limited (FIRE), Kenya Airways Limited (KQ), Kenya Electricity Generating Company - Kengen - (KEGN), and Sasini Limited (SASN) had declined the most in share price. Kenya Airways yesterday announced that it would lose over KES 4 billion in revenue from suspended operations in West Africa. This is due to the Ebola outbreak there.

Market snapshot

As at 11.30 am today.

Most shares traded

The Co-operative Bank of Kenya Limited (COOP), Barclays Bank of Kenya (BBK), Equity Bank Limited (EQTY), Safaricom Limited (SCOM), and Umeme Limited (UMME) were the five most traded shares.

Asks and Bids

Asks are prices quoted by prospective sellers while bids are prices quoted by prospective buyers. Pending bids/asks are those that are yet to get a match. They (pending bid/asks) can be used as an indicator of the direction the price of a share will take.

The pending bids and asks for Kenya Airways which saw it Uganda employees go on strike last Monday are given below.

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