The Trading Room

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...

IMF Deputy Managing Director and Acting Chairperson of the Executive Board, Antoinette Sayeh, said Kenya had shown remarkable resilience to the COVID shock in 2020 and is staging an economic recovery.

Oil prices were lower in the afternoon of Asia trading hours, with international benchmark Brent crude futures falling 3.25% to $71.13 per barrel. U.S. crude futures shed 3.71% to $68.23 per barrel.

The oil and gas rig count, an early indicator of future output, rose by three to 579 in the week to Dec. 17, its highest since April 2020, energy services firm Baker Hughes said in...

All eyes across global markets were on the Fed last week as the market awaited the latest policy decision and outlook – a decision that drew particular attention given the inflation environment.