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Total market turnover rose to sh1.01b this week, up from sh833.15m the week before at the Uganda Securities Exchange (USE).
Market data from Crested Capital shows that share volumes, however, dropped to 5.653 million from 9.258 million.
During the trading week, MTN exchanged shares worth sh582.92m from 1.28m shares. Stanbic Holdings followed with sh188.09m from 1.98m shares. dfcu Limited moved sh96.22m in 283,000 shares, while Umeme traded sh76.18m from 1m shares.
Airtel Uganda exchanged sh25.81m from 135,532 shares. NIC Holdings traded sh20.60m from 776,930 shares, and Bank of Baroda moved sh20.44m from 198,918 shares.
Umeme led the gainers, rising 12.31% to sh77.63. NIC Holdings added 2.14% to close at sh25.79, and dfcu edged up 0.59% to sh340. Bank of Baroda fell 2.97% to sh102, Airtel Uganda dropped 2.59% to sh188, Stanbic eased 0.54% to sh96, and MTN Uganda held steady at sh455.
Cross-listed counters mostly declined. Centum Investments fell 11.65% to sh518.81. Equity Group Holdings dropped 5.91% to sh3,030.31. East African Breweries lost 4.50% to sh8,475.52, Jubilee Holdings slipped 5.71% to sh12,619.80, Kenya Airways declined 4.84% to sh175.12, KCB Group fell 4.98% to sh2,734.29, and Nation Media Group eased 5.51% to sh433.12.