Closing Bell 3 May 2012

Gainers
Price               Change

B.O.C Kenya Limited 115.00 +8.49
Mumias Sugar Company Limited 5.65 +6.60
Scangroup Limited 54.50 +5.83
British-American Insurance 5.20 +4.00
KenGen Limited 8.55 +3.64

Losers
Price                   Change

Limuru Tea Company Limited 400.00 -6.98
CFC Insurance Holdings 7.85 -1.87
Bamburi Cement Limited 143.00 -1.38
Equity Bank Limited 20.75 -1.19
Sameer Africa Limited 4.70 -1.05

Exchange Rates

Currency Mean
US Dollar 83.4053
Sterling Pound 135.0438
Euro 109.6516
SA Rand 10.7800
KES/USHS 29.7944
KES/TSHS 19.0037
KES/RWF 7.2779

Safaricom was the day's biggest mover with 24,196,800 shares being traded in the day with a turnover of KES 82.26 million. The share closed 5 cents up (1.49%) at KES 3.40. The Mumias Sugar counter was active today with 3.16 million shares being traded in the day, the counter closing at KES 5.65, 35 cents higher (6.6%) from the previous day's trading. There were 1.67 million EABL shares traded in the day with the share closing KES 7 (3.35%) higher than the previous session at KES 216. The share now has a market capitalisation of KES 170.02 billion. KCB had 1.67 million shares being traded in the day in 124 bids to close 75 cents up (3.3%) at KES 23.50. Equity Bank had 1.075 million shares being tradedcin 70 trades. The counter closed 25 cents lower (1.19%) than the previous day, closing at KES 20.75. Today on Pesatalk we discuss the imminent increases in the cost of electricity (click here for that), we sampled some of the unlimited-data mobile plans on offer (read that here) and we reveal that Airtel Money users can now access loans through their phones (see more here).

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