The Trading Room

Shares in Asia-Pacific were mostly lower in Friday trade after the S&P 500 on Wall Street cruised to another record closing high overnight. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index dipped 0.72% by the afternoon. Shares of Tencent-backed financial...

Business activity in Kenya shrank sharply in March as the hike in fuel prices and COVID-19 restrictions hit key sectors of the economy, such as the hospitality and entertainment industry. The Stanbic Bank Kenya Purchasing...

Oil prices edged up in early Asian trade on Friday, supported by a weaker dollar, as investors weighed rising supplies and the impact on fuel demand from the COVID-19 pandemic. Brent crude futures for June...

Analysts have raised expectations for first-quarter S&P 500 earnings increase to 24.2%, according to Refinitiv IBES data as of April 1, versus 21% forecast on Feb. 5

At the end of today's trading session on the Nairobi Securities Exchange. A total of 15,308,200 shares in 1,032 deals, corresponding to a market value of KES 459,110,459.00, were traded. Compared with the previous NSE...