Our focus today on Nairobi Securities Exchange stocks watch shall be on the telecommunication and technology sector with specific attention to the Safaricom counter. We shall also be looking at the Standard Chartered Bank and Williamson Tea Ltd counters. See a summary of last Friday’s share trading …

The NSE 20 Share Index closed at 3975.79, a increase of 14.74 from yesterday’s points. The All-Share Index performance improved by 0.46 from yesterday’s 87.08 points to close at 87.54 HIGHEST VOLUMES Safaricom was the highest traded…

The NSE 20 Share Index closed at 3961.05, a increase of 2.43 from yesterday’s points. The All-Share Index performance dropped by 0.03 from yesterday’s 87.11 points to close at 87.08. HIGHEST VOLUMES KCB was the highest traded counter today (again this week) with 5.36 million shares traded while second was Cooperative Bank with…

Our focus today on Nairobi Securities Exchange watch shall be on two stocks; Sasini Group Ltd and Standard Chartered Bank. The primary aim of watching them is to measure their volatility to press releases. It will help determine existence of information sensitivity in the Kenyan market. The…

First of all, calm down; the taxes referred to are not the personal income tax that’s deducted from your pay-check. These are alternative forms of tax that fall under the income tax category but have small charges associated with them, enough to earn anyone a tidy profit. Capital…

The NSE 20 Share Index closed at 4069.33, an increase of 124 points marking another cross into the 4000 points range. The All-Share Index performance better by 0.41 points to close at 87.11. This growth could have been spurred by the launch of the Government Bond index today, that…

A bond is a debt instrument used by corporations, governments or municipals to borrow from many people at one time in order to raise their financial capital. They are a promise by the issuer to pay you back the principal amount you used to purchase the bond and…

The Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) working with international Index provider FTSE Group has officially announced the launch of the FTSE NSE Kenyan Shilling Government Bond Index today. The index is the world’s first independently calculated benchmark index tracking the principal Kenyan Government bond market. “The launch of the FTSE NSE…

Kenya’s grade AA coffee top price rose by 9.6% to $342 (KES 29,070) a bag this week from $312 (KES 26,520) last week. This is according to the Nairobi Coffee Exchange (NCE) Wednesday October 3 market report. During the auction, Grade AA COF-AA-KE sold at $132 (KES…

Our focus today on Nairobi Securities Exchange stocks watch shall be on the banking and agriculture sector with specific focus on 2 counters (one in each) See a summary of yesterday’s share trading here. Williamson Tea Kenya Ltd  – The stock was one of the top losers yesterday…