The current provisional trade data up to August 2020 shows Kenya’s exports were valued at 34.9 billion shillings while imports are valued at kes 18.9 billion with a trade balance of kes 15.9 billion being...

The Japanese yen, often seen as a safe-haven currency, traded at 104.94 per dollar after seeing an earlier high of 104.35 against the greenback.

During the AGM shareholder approved a final dividend payout of Kes 0.25 for every ordinary share of Kes 2.50 translating to Kes 1.65 billion.

The S&P banking subindex .SPXBK surged 2.5% to its highest in more than a week, while industrial stocks such as Caterpillar Inc CAT.N and Honeywell International Inc HON.N rose about 2% each.

Safaricom Plc recorded the highest volume of 15.6 million traded shares valued at Kes 490.22 million