Forex Trail – 31 May 2012

Below is a table comparing the performance of the Kenya Shilling against major international and regional currencies over the last two trading days; Tuesday 29th and Wednesday 30th May 2012.

    Currency
Date US Dollar Sterling Pound Euro SA Rand KES/USHS KES/TSHS KES/RWF
  29/05/2012 85.3958 134.1424 107.5728 10.2703 29.0648 18.6193 7.0555
  30/05/2012 85.9556 134.2451 107.1941 10.2902 28.8522 18.498 7.0096

 

As we can see the shilling continued its downward trend against the US Dollar, dropping by 0.65554%. The shilling also dropped in value against the Sterling Pound and the South African Rand.  However, it appreciated against the Euro, the Ugandan Shilling, the Tanzanian Shilling and the Rwanda Shilling.

Yesterday, it was announced that the inflation rate has dropped in the month of May to 12.22% from 13.06% in April. Today we will observe to see whether this will have any effect on the performance of the Kenya Shilling.

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