The Nairobi Security Exchange (NSE) equity turnover and number of shares traded reduced by 45.27 per cent from 801,343,246 registered on Monday to 438,513,153 registered and 38.8 per respectively on Tuesday.
The decline was due to low trading on the day. This is so despite the market capitalisation, number of shares traded and total deals increasing slightly. According to the NSE daily price listing, the total share traded increased by 17, 164, 800, which is 38.8 per cent NSE All Share index.
However, the NSE 25 share index lead in the increment for the day by about 11.15 point basis, compared to NSE 20 share index which gained 6.91 share increase while NSE all share index increased slightly by 0.92 per cent basis.