The Trading Room

Shares in Asia-Pacific rose on Tuesday as investors reassessed the situation surrounding the omicron Covid variant. Japanese stocks led gains regionally, with the Nikkei 225 in Japan rising 2.08% on the day to 28,517.59 while the Topix...

Kenya Electricity Generating Company (Kengen) earnings from the new Ethiopian operations quadrupled from Kes 440 million last year to Kes 1.7 billion in the year ending June 2021. The firm’s diversification venture that includes drilling...

Oil prices rose on Tuesday, though investors remained worried about the rapid spread of the Omicron coronavirus variant globally, prompting countries to consider more restrictions potentially denting fuel demand. Brent crude futures increased by 59...

The yield on the three-year Treasury note was down 1.9 basis points at 0.9069% in afternoon wall street trading, while yields on longer-term government debt rose throughout the day.

At the end of the first weekday of trading on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE). A total of 13,002,800 shares in 837 deals, corresponding to a market value of KES 532,838,845.00, were traded. Compared with...