In the week ended 4th October, 2019. The Nairobi Securities Exchange had a drop on week on week (w-o-w) turnover to Kes 2.2Bn against a turnover of Kes 2.6Bn transacted the previous week. On average, the daily turnover stood at 412Mn as compared to 450Mn on the previous week.
Total Market Volume for the week stood at 81Mn shares against a volume of 85Mn shares transacted last week. The average daily turnover stood at 13Mn as Wednesday & Thursday had a cumulative 63% of the total turnover moving 52Mn shares in the week.
The benchmark NSE All Share Index (NASI) closed Friday at 147.23, representing a week on week gain(W/W) of 2.05%, a 4-week month to month (M/M) gain of 3.30%, and an overall year-to-date (YTD) gain of 4.84%.
The NSE 25 Share Index (NSE25) closed Friday at 3505.32 points, which was a w/w loss of 0.04%, a M/M gain of 1.39%, and an overall year-to-date (YTD) loss of 1.30%.
The NSE 20 share Index (NSE20) closed at 2438.97 points which represented a w/w loss of -0.20%, a 4-week month to month (M/M) gain of 0.13% and a Year to date (YTD) loss of 13.93%.
The Derivatives Market(NEXT) of the NSE closed the week with a total of 24 contracts valued at Kes 661,000; a 23.8% rise by value from the previous week of 17 contracts valued at Kes 534,000.
