Closing Bell – 16 May 2012

Gainers

Price (KES) Change (%)
Olympia Capital Holdings Limited 3.80 8.57
NIC Bank Limited 35.25 6.82
Kenya Reinsurance Corporation Limited 12.70 6.28
Eveready East Africa Limited 1.75 6.06
National Bank of Kenya Limited 21.00 5.00

Losers

Price (KES) Change (%)
Car and General (Kenya) Limited 26.50 8.62
AccessKenya Group Limited 4.60 3.16
Athi River Mining Limited 200.00 2.44
Eaagads Limited 31.00 2.36
CFC Stanbic Holdings Limited 42.25 1.74

Exchange Rates

CURRENCY MEAN
US DOLLAR 84.1417
STG POUND 134.3425
EURO 107.0125
SA RAND 10.0925
KES/USHS 29.5931
KES/TSHS 18.7661
KES/RWF 7.2261
KES/BIF 16.4842

In today’s trading Safaricom Limited was observed to be the biggest mover with 12.22 million shares exchanging hands. Kenya Commercial Bank came in second with 5.51 million shares traded. Equity Bank recorded transactions amounting to 3.86 million shares. Mumias Sugar Company came in fourth with 2.29 million shares traded. To wrap up the top five we have Barclays Bank of Kenya with 2.04 million shares traded. As we can see, commercial banks were the most active counters at the NSE today.

Today on the pesatalk we hypothesised on why the shilling has been falling and highlighted the following:

 

 

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