Foreigners dominate Absa gold-backed stocks on NSE

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A stockbroker at the Nairobi Securities Exchange trading floor. FILE PHOTO | NMG

Foreigners dominate Absa’s gold-backed exchange-traded fund listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE), fresh data by the markets regulator showed.

The Capital Markets Authority (CMA) said foreigners held 207,500 shares of the NewGold exchange-traded fund (ETF) as of February, dwarfing individual local owners and institutional owners with 15,000 and 26,100 shares, respectively.

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