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Kenyan Firms Flag Middle East Conflict, Energy Costs

By Brian Nzomo

Kenyan companies entered this second quarter of the year with weakening sales, softer demand, and shrinking production. A CBK survey of more than 1,000 chief executives has found that firms are grappling with slower activity and rising costs but most have a positive outlook for the third quarter and the next 12 months.

That optimistic outlook is still dampened by concerns about external threats, with more executives worried about tensions and conflict in the Middle East than about the ripple effects of US tariffs, which are already elevating business costs and weakening consumer demand. The immediate inflationary effects of energy supply chains, compounded by tightening financial conditions, could worsen the strain on an already sluggish economy. Read the full article here »»»»»

Kenya Opens Domestic Bond Market to Global Funds

By Harry Njuguna

The Central Bank of Kenya and Clearstream, Deutsche Börse Group's post-trade business, have launched a market link that will give international institutional investors direct access to Kenya's government securities, marking a significant step in Kenya's effort to integrate its domestic debt market with global capital flows.

The Clearstream-Kenya Link, which goes live today, connects Clearstream's global network to the DhowCSD, Kenya's central securities depository, through an omnibus account structure. The link removes the main operational barrier that has historically kept foreign institutional investors out of Kenya's local-currency bond market. Read the full article here »»»»»

Fawzia on Safaricom's Giving Back and Its Impact, Starting at Lewa

By TKWS

Safaricom sees its core business, from network to products and services, as one of three channels through which it transforms lives. The other channels include sports and philanthropic foundations, which have had widespread impact in the telco’s 26 year history. The company has put nearly KSh 1.5 billion directly into sports and "far more" indirectly.

"But it has never been about the money. It's about the impact," Fawzia Ali-Kimanthi, Safaricom's Chief Consumer Business Officer told The Kenyan Wall Street on the sidelines of this year’s edition of Lewa Marathon. The marathon's growth tells its own story: from roughly 130 runners at the first edition to about 1,300 at the 2026 edition, a tenfold rise, with more than 30 countries represented this year and nearly 150 runners arriving from outside Kenya. Read the article here >>>>>

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