Shilling unmoved as dollar rallies on Trump victory

Kenya and US currencies

Analysts expect the heat of the dollar depreciation to eventually reflect in the Kenyan shilling and markets.

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The shilling remained relatively stable on Wednesday following the victory of Donald Trump in US elections that occasioned a sharp, one-day rally of the dollar against major world currencies.

Live foreign exchange data showed that the Kenyan shilling remained steady at around Sh129 to the US dollar. It was not clear whether the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) had intervened to maintain the local currency’s trading at that level.

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