Here are the shares we will be closely watching in today’s trading at the Nairobi Securities Exchange:

• EABL – The beer maker is set to announce full-year financial results today for the year ended 30^th June 2012. Last year EABL’s profit after tax grew 2 percent to 9 billion shillings. The share has rallied this year to trade above the 200 shilling mark since April hitting a more than 5 year high of KES 240 in July. The share closed yesterday at KES 229.

• NIC Bank – The bank has posted a 43 percent growth in half-year earnings to 2.3 billion shillings. NIC will begin a rights issue on Monday. Read more here. The shares closed yesterday at KES 31.57 with no change since Wednesday.

• Jubilee Holdings – The parent company of Jubilee Insurance and Jubilee Financial Services has posted a pre-tax profit of 927.9 million shillings for the half-year up 19 percent from the same period last year. The share closed yesterday at KES 157 which is 25 shillings short of its highest of KES 182 reached in May this year.