CLOSING BELL 30/3/2012

Gainers

Price          Change

Pan Africa Insurance Holdings 24.75 7.61%
Sasini Limited 11.05 2.79%
Express Limited 4.15 2.47%
Standard Chartered Bank Limited 174.00 1.75%
Scangroup Limited 50.50 1.51%

Losers

Price          Change

Standard Group Limited 21.00 8.70%
Total Kenya Limited 14.05 4.10%
Jubilee Holdings Limited 178.00 3.26%
Eveready East Africa Limited 1.50 3.23%
Barclays Bank Limited 12.05 3.21%

Exchange Rates

Currency             Mean

US DOLLAR 83.0556
STG POUND 132.7515
EURO 110.8589
SA RAND 10.7737
KES/USHS 30.2810
KES/TSHS 19.1439

Safaricom Limited today was the biggest mover trading 28.3 million shares with a turnover of Kshs. 90.84 million to close trading at Kshs.3.20 . Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) moved 2.7 million shares with a value of Kshs. 60.75 million. Equity Bank closed the trading session at Kshs. 19.20 having traded 923,400 shares with a turnover of Kshs. 17.77 million. The Pan Africa Insurance Holdings share was today’s biggest gainer moving up by Kshs. 1.75 (7.61%) to close at Kshs. 24.75. Standard Group Limited was the biggest loser in today’s trading, down by 8.7% (Kshs. 2) to close the session at Kshs. 21 down from the previous day's close of Kshs. 23.

Jubilee Holdings released its financial results for the year ended 31st December 2011, reporting a 4% increase in net profits for the year. To read more on Jubilee's fortunes, click here. Kenya Airways received the go-ahead to carry on with their planned rights issue at an event attended by President Kibaki at the KICC today. The Central Bank of Kenya also revealed that measures taken to reduce inflation were working with inflation in March dropping to 15.1% from February's inflation of 16.69%. To read more on this story click here.

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