Oil prices dipped in the afternoon of Asia trading hours, with international benchmark Brent crude futures fractionally lower at $48.21 per barrel. U.S. crude futures slipped 0.13% to $45.22 per barrel.

The S&P 500 posted 18 new 52-week highs and no new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 89 new highs and 12 new lows.

There was one Safaricom contract expiring on 17th December, 2020, concluded during today's trading session on the derivatives segment of the Nairobi Securities Exchange. 

The U.S. dollar index, which tracks the greenback against a basket of its peers, was at 91.149 following a decline earlier this week from levels above 91.5.

While the Kenya firm produces and supplies industrial, medical, and special gases, CIL’s main operating subsidiary Carbacid (CO2) Limited is the region’s leading producer of food-grade carbon dioxide extracted from natural underground reservoirs in Kenya.