https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/markets/capital/Dusty-storm-sweeps-through-Sh2trn/4259442-5242654-ng5vud/index.htmlThere is a dusty wind blowing up a storm through the dessert that is the floor of the Nairobi Securities Exchange.
The market that is supposed to hold Sh2.278 trillion, which is 30 per cent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product has no takers sending down stock prices and wiping out billions of shillings in paper wealth.
Walking through its vacant isles, you see a ghost town with rickety store fronts, discoloured dead stock and owners sapped dry with only one distant corner of refuge where all the market players are huddled for safety of their last pieces of silver as they watch advance of the great drought on returns.
A review last week showed that when the market opened on Tuesday, after Eid ul Adha celebrations, 17 counters had zero transactions and 11 counters had transactions that were less than 1,000.
On Wednesday, the situation worsened as 21 counters went without trading while seven had less than 1,000 stocks exchanged.
There are only two emotions in the stock market, fear and hope. The problem is, you hope when you should fear and fear when you should hope