AUG. 25, 2018: LAST WEEK ALL SHARE INDEX DOWN 1.31% AT NAIROBI SE.


At Nairobi Securities Exchange last week ended yesterday August 24, 2018, the All share index closed down daily all through the 4 day week to end at 172.98, about 1.31% lower that previous week's close.

It closed the previous week at 174.59; started the week down at 174.31 on Monday then dived some what to 173.86 on Wednesday, after Tuesday holiday.

Come Thursday, it eased gently again to 173.31 before another dive on Friday. All through there were far more price drops than gains capping with 31 gains and 10 price drops yesterday.

Top gain on Friday was by Diamond Trust Bank, up Ksh 7 per share followed by Stanbic Holdings with Ksh 6 per share top up.

Crown Paints paced price losers with Ksh 5 per share trailed by East African Breweries, down Ksh 4 per share and Standard Group which eased by Ksh 3 per share.

Being a four day week, comparison with previous 5 day week may not be ideal buy at 59.766m shares valued at Ksh 1.838bn, trading was below previous week's level but above that of the week before that, also a 5 day one.

Highest daily volume was recorded on Wednesday after the holiday at 19.967m shares followed by Monday's 16.266m.

However, in terms of traded value, Friday August 24, witnessed the highest at Ksh 606.029m followed by Wednesday's Ksh 467.938m before Monday's Ksh 417.627.

Per equity, Safaricom paced traded volume with 19.4m shares sold but not traded value as Equity Group's 2nd placed 8.9m volume was fetched Ksh 747m.

ALL SHARE INDEX

Friday  24/8/2018.          172.98
Thursday.                          173.31
Wednesday.                      173.86
Monday.                             174.31
Friday 17/8/2018.            174.59

VOLUME m

Friday 24/8/2018.          13.027
Thursday.                         10.506
Wednesday.                     19.967
Monday.                           16.266

VALUE Ksh m

Friday 24/8/2018.          606.85
Thursday.                        345.89
Wednesday.                    467.93
Monday.                          417.62

DEALS

Friday.    24/8/2018.      1116
Thursday.                         1312
Wednesday.                     1032
Monday.                            1087


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