The market was quiet.
There was a slight improvement in activity as foreigners returned to the market (foreign participation increased to 58.7% compared to 53.7% in the previous session). EABL (-0.3%, KES319), Britam (-2.2%, KES21.75) Equity Bank (unch, KES49.50) and Safaricom (+0.6%, KES17.20) were the most actively traded names in the session. Centum was the days top performer as the counter closed up by 1.6% at KES62 whilst Uchumi (-4.2%, KES 10.20) was amongst the leading losers.
SBM was the most actively traded counter as 52.7m shares traded in the name. The counter closed strong at RS0.92 (2.2%) although most trades were executed at Rs0.91. MCBG closed up by 0.5% at Rs199 as a total of 252k shares were traded in the name.
Activity in the market was subdued as foreign participation remains scarce - this trend may continue until new government takes over on the 29 th of May 2015. The Banking index retreated by 1.12% due to losses in FBNH (-3.75%, N10), UBA (-3.53%, N4.92), Zenith Bank (-1.82, N21.60 and Access Bank (-3.04, N6.06). The Consumer index also closed down by 0.70% on the back of measly volumes in most names. PZ and Guinness were the top sector performers closing strong at N30 (0.50%) and N160.28 (0.15%) respectively.
Please note that the index figure above is correct at the time of writing.
It was a quiet session which saw some pockets of activity in CBZH (unch, 10c) and Econet (unch, 49c) , trading a total of 360k and 179k shares respectively. Delta closed flat at 105c on the back of 38k shares traded.
| Country | Notation | Currency | YTD % | 
| South Africa | ZAR | 11.86 | -2.45 | 
| Nigeria | NGN | 199.18 | -7.90 | 
| Kenya | KES | 94.45 | -4.08 | 
| Mauritius | MUR | 35.65 | -10.94 | 
| Botswana | BWP | 9.81 | -3.04 | 
| Tanzania | TZS | 1970.00 | -12.03 | 
| Uganda | UGX | 3000.00 | -7.63 | 
| Rwanda | RWF | 707.60 | -2.51 | 
| Ghana | GHS | 3.85 | -16.43 | 
| BRVM | XOF | 600.00 | -9.66 | 
| Egypt | EGP | 7.63 | -6.28 | 
| Morocco | MAD | 9.82 | -7.66 | 
| Tunisia | TND | 1.94 | -3.59 |