NAIROBI, June 15 (Xinhua) -- Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) 20 Share Index on Thursday sustained upward trend after crossing the 3,500 point mark, pushed up by rise in some large stock prices.
The benchmark index gained 16 points to close the day at 3,522.79 from 3,506.90 in the previous session.
Some 32 million shares worth 8.8 million U.S. dollars were traded during the session.
Safaricom, Kenya's leading telecom, was the most traded stock after moving 16 million shares, down from 29.2 million shares at an increased price of 0.23 dollars.
Following the telecom was Equity Bank with 5.2 million shares traded at increased price of 0.39 dollars, a 0.6 percent swell.
Kenya Commercial Bank was third with 2.2 million shares while Mumias Sugar moved 1.6 million shares to clock the fourth position. Investment firm ICDC came fifth with 1.1 million shares.
Foreign investors' participation stood at 69 percent, down from 73 percent in the last session.
At the secondary bond market, turnover went up to 36 million dollars from 19 million dollars in the previous session. Enditem
