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Equity Dislodges Safaricom To Trade The Most On Thursday

BY Juma · July 14, 2023 11:07 am

KEY POINTS

Equity Group emerged as the most traded counter, accounting for 49.3% of turnover. The lender maintained its rally, notching 1.2% higher to KES 43.00 on sustained foreign demand.

The benchmark indices closed higher with the exception of the market which eased by 0.2%. The NSE 20 and NSE 25 extended gains by 0.4% and 0.3% respectively. Market activity declined 67.6% to USD 0.8m on reduced trading of most large caps.

Gainers And Losers

Equity Group emerged as the most traded counter, accounting for 49.3% of turnover. The lender maintained its rally, notching 1.2% higher to KES 43.00 on sustained foreign demand.

KCB featured amongst the top gainers of the day. The lender closed in the green for the second consecutive session, gaining 2.6% to KES 29.85 as local investors bought the dip.

EABL investors could also cheer as the brewer maintained its mini rally, ticking up 1.5% to a one-month high of KES 164.25 on local demand.

Umeme was the top gainer once more, up 8.3%. The firm has recouped 30.3% from its 43.7% drop. Meanwhile, Eveready was the top loser, declining 9.4% on thin volumes.

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NSE

Foreign investors remained bullish, registering net inflows of USD 0.2m. Equity Group led the buying charge while KCB led the selling charge.

The MPC

The next CBK Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has been rescheduled from this month to Wednesday, August 9, 2023. The MPC previously held an extraordinary meeting in late June in which the benchmark interest rates were hiked by 100bps to 10.5%.

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Juma is an enthusiastic journalist who believes that journalism has power to change the world either negatively or positively depending on how one uses it.(020) 528 0222 or Email: info@sokodirectory.com

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