NAIRBI, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) -- All the key indices of the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) declined Monday as the bourse recorded sluggish trading.
The benchmark NSE 20 Share Index was down 17.1 points to close at 3,293.08 while the All Share Index (NASI) shed 0.41 points to settle at 170.76. The NSE 25 Share Index, on the other hand, declined 16.22 points to stand at 4,457.52.
The banking sector transacted the most shares to account for 63.5 percent of the day's traded volume. Kenya Commercial Bank topped the category after moving 1.5 million shares.
Safaricom transacted 1.4 million shares to represent 17.5 percent of the day's traded value while the manufacturing sector came third with shares worth 6 percent transacted.
The bond market had an improvement of activities with securities worth 30 million dollars transacted, compared to 7.9 million dollars on Friday last week. Enditem
