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5 Money Mistakes You Might be Making

5 possible reasons you may be broke!
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Your Weekend Reads

As we always do on Saturday morning, we travel the web and bring you five articles that we thought might keep you company. Here is a collection of the five we thought we should share this weekend. Have a fabulous weekend and enjoy the reads. 1. How price…
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Things To Do With Your Money

When it comes to handling money, everyone has their own approach. Some stuff it in an envelope at home for budgeting, others deposit it in a bank to avoid the temptation of spending, others use plastic to escape bank ATM withdrawal fees. Whatever your penchant, the following are basic guidelines…
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Providers Should be Fined for Poor Service

There are far too many disservice providers in this country- from electricity, to water, Internet services, transport, etc. And as Kenyans crave for quality service, the government proves toothless on this issue. One wonders what role the Kenyan government plays in terms of service…
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This Week's Top Posts at Pesatalk

Here are the articles we are highlighting from the past week at Pesatalk, in case you missed any of them Safaricom lowers cross network calling rates ow.ly/bsZP6 Credit information and reports can now be accessed on the mobile phone ow.ly/bsZQr Somewhere between Safaricom and Kenya Power…
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Milk Prices Lowered

The price of milk has significantly gone down on the retail market a month after the rains cut the long dry spells. Milk is now retailing at between Ksh.35 and Ksh. 40 for the half liter packet down from between Ksh. 48 and Ksh. 55  in April. In December and…
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Trading to Win

One of the challenges that many experienced and successful investors constantly face is that they have a great deal more to lose. It is one thing to be a beginner who knows very little and winds up losing KES 500,000 of money playing the market but it is an entirely…
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Closing Bell – 8 June 2012

A summary of the day's activities at the NSE
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Africa's Top 10 Wealthiest

Here is an infographic depicting Africa’s top 10 wealthiest according to data from Forbes   Source:  afrographique…
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Pesa Portfolio – 8 June 2012

A look at how the Pesa Portfolio has performed following yesterday's closing prices at the Nairobi Securities Exchange.
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National Bank Has a New Managing Director

Mr. Munir Sheikh Ahmed has been appointed the new managing Director of the National Bank of Kenya.  In a letter to the Nairobi Securities Exchange dated 7th of June, the outgoing Managing Director informed the Capital Markets Authority and Nairobi Securities Exchange about the Development. Mr Munir…
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KQ Rights Issue Results

Kenya Airways has released the results for the recently concluded rights issue. After several postponements, the KQ results have been released, featuring predominantly in the major dailies this morning. Of the 1.477 billion shares in offer, 70.06 percent of the shares were taken up by shareholders. The company…
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Stocks Watch – 8 June 2012

At the close of trading at the NSE yesterday, the NSE 20-share index stood at 3,651.27 while the All-share index stood at 78.62. The total number of shares traded stood at 9.744 million in 1141 deals. The equity turnover stood at KES 203.302 million. In today’s trading we will be…
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The Hustle of Buying Electricity Tokens

When Kenya Power (KP) introduced pre-paid meters its consumers anticipated relief given the many problems associated with post-paid meters. The Post-Paid system had been blamed for not returning account deposits, consumers having no control over their consumption, unpleasant disconnection, high reconnection fees, corruption during…
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Top Movers at the NSE Close Unmoved

The top 5 moving shares on the Nairobi Securities Exchange closed unmoved with their prices staying as they were yesterday.
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