{"id":11294,"date":"2025-02-17T08:59:05","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T08:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sib.co.ke\/reports\/?p=11294"},"modified":"2025-02-17T08:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T08:59:07","slug":"weekly-fixed-income-report-17-feb-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sib.co.ke\/reports\/weekly-fixed-income-report-17-feb-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"WEEKLY FIXED INCOME REPORT\u00a0| 17 Feb 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-425109d4-4f78-4d49-9a5f-46f71f19d7ea\" href=\"https:\/\/sib.co.ke\/reports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/SIB-Fixed-Income-Weekly-Report-17-Feb-2025.pdf\">SIB Fixed Income Weekly Report 17 Feb 2025<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sib.co.ke\/reports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/SIB-Fixed-Income-Weekly-Report-17-Feb-2025.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-425109d4-4f78-4d49-9a5f-46f71f19d7ea\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Money Market Analysis<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>In the money market, the interbank lending rate kept sliding as the impact of recent monetary action took shape. Banks lent to each other at an average of 10.5%, down 35.66bps from the previous week&#8217;s 10.9%. Meanwhile, trading activity picked up by 7.6% to KES 15.36bn from KES 14.29bn, signaling a liquidity squeeze losing its grip.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The table below summarizes the market liquidity indicators:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"193\" src=\"https:\/\/sib.co.ke\/reports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-17-at-11.42.54-AM-1024x193.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sib.co.ke\/reports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-17-at-11.42.54-AM-1024x193.png 1024w, https:\/\/sib.co.ke\/reports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-17-at-11.42.54-AM-300x57.png 300w, https:\/\/sib.co.ke\/reports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-17-at-11.42.54-AM-768x145.png 768w, https:\/\/sib.co.ke\/reports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-17-at-11.42.54-AM.png 1316w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>See below a visual chart of the interbank market trends so far;\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"397\" src=\"https:\/\/sib.co.ke\/reports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-17-at-11.43.08-AM-1024x397.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sib.co.ke\/reports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-17-at-11.43.08-AM-1024x397.png 1024w, https:\/\/sib.co.ke\/reports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-17-at-11.43.08-AM-300x116.png 300w, https:\/\/sib.co.ke\/reports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-17-at-11.43.08-AM-768x298.png 768w, https:\/\/sib.co.ke\/reports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-17-at-11.43.08-AM.png 1294w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The weighted average interbank rate has closely tracked the Central Bank Rate, underscoring the stability and effectiveness of the monetary policy framework. See the chart below;\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"445\" src=\"https:\/\/sib.co.ke\/reports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-17-at-11.43.15-AM-1-1024x445.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sib.co.ke\/reports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-17-at-11.43.15-AM-1-1024x445.png 1024w, https:\/\/sib.co.ke\/reports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-17-at-11.43.15-AM-1-300x130.png 300w, https:\/\/sib.co.ke\/reports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-17-at-11.43.15-AM-1-768x334.png 768w, https:\/\/sib.co.ke\/reports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-17-at-11.43.15-AM-1.png 1228w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Read full report:<br><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-425109d4-4f78-4d49-9a5f-46f71f19d7ea\" href=\"https:\/\/sib.co.ke\/reports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/SIB-Fixed-Income-Weekly-Report-17-Feb-2025.pdf\">SIB Fixed Income Weekly Report 17 Feb 2025<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sib.co.ke\/reports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/SIB-Fixed-Income-Weekly-Report-17-Feb-2025.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-425109d4-4f78-4d49-9a5f-46f71f19d7ea\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Money Market Analysis In the money market, the interbank lending rate kept sliding as the impact of recent monetary action took shape. Banks lent to each other at an average of 10.5%, down 35.66bps from the previous week&#8217;s 10.9%. Meanwhile, trading activity picked up by 7.6% to KES 15.36bn from KES 14.29bn, signaling a liquidity&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[156,96,158,81,82,157],"class_list":["post-11294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weekly-reports","tag-currencies","tag-epra","tag-platts-index","tag-t-bills","tag-t-bonds","tag-yen"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>WEEKLY FIXED INCOME REPORT\u00a0| 17 Feb 2025 - Standard Investment Bank<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Diaspora Remittances rise by3.6% y\/y to KES 427.4m in January 2025; 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