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Nairobi Stock Exchange reports 22 percent rise in first-half profit

The Nairobi Securities Exchange on Monday reported a 22.3 percent rise in pretax profit for the first six months of the year, and said it was on track to launch a new derivatives market this year.

The Kenyan bourse, which listed last year, said pretax profit in the period through June rose to 218 million shillings ($2.1 million) from 179 million in the same period last year. Total income climbed 13.6 percent to 401 million shillings.

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