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Protect economy from political shocks

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Last Friday’s announcement of a repeat presidential poll sent the stock market tumbling, causing the Kenyan shilling to lose against the dollar.

The reaction was instantaneous. Business thrives only in an environment of certainty and where the opposite obtains, there is bound to be what is known as panic sales.

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