The Secondary bond market on the Nairobi Securities Exchange recorded a decline in activity with bonds worth Kes 1.44 Billion transacted against the Kes 1.86 billion worth of bonds traded during Wednesday's trading session.

IFC remains committed to scaling investment and advisory support in Kenya, especially within the context of Kenya’s Big Four Agenda of manufacturing, affordable housing, affordable healthcare, and food security.

CBK is using some of its reserves to help ease some of that pressure, which we think is partially seasonal

The Australian dollar was flat and changed hands at $0.7137 while the Korean won traded at 1,198.61 per U.S. dollar, with the dollar/won pair up 0.12%.

Volume on U.S. exchanges was 10.32 billion shares, compared with the 11.28 billion average over the last 20 trading days.