At the end of the first weekday of trading on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) this week. A total of 8,684,900 shares in 721 deals, corresponding to a market value of KES 242,154,697.00, were traded....

Mainland Chinese stocks rose on the day: The Shanghai composite gained 0.86% to 3,502.96 while the Shenzhen component soared 2.466% to 14,827.47.

Investor sentiment and the lira currency also benefited from the central bank’s recent action on interest rates. Following the December 24 monetary policy meeting—at which policymakers decided to raise all three major lending rates by...

Gold prices gained as safe-haven metal notched its best year in a decade due to economic uncertainties caused by the pandemic. Spot gold added 0.2% to $1,897.88 an ounce.

There were no contracts concluded during today’s trading session on the derivatives market.