NAIROBI, May 5 (Reuters) - Kenya's shilling dipped 0.2 percent in early trading on Monday before recouping the losses as some commercial banks booked profit on long dollar positions, a senior currency trader said. At 0700 GMT leading commercial lenders quoted the shillingKES= at 86.85/95 to the dollar, matching Friday's closing price. The local currency has held its ground against the greenback, down 0.3 percent in the year to date, supported by the central bank's stance of draining excess liquidity from the money market. "The fact that central bank is still keeping the money market tight is supporting the shilling," the senior trader said. "We're not seeing that much (dollar) demand and whatever is coming in is easily being met by supply from the agricultural sector." By absorbing liquidity, the central bank makes it more expensive to hold long dollar positions, thereby shoring up the shilling. The weighted average yield on the overnight rateCBK02 on May 2 was 8.42 percent, above April's low of 6.73 percent on April 9. "We expect the shilling to trade within 86.50/87.00 this week, with more bias on a stronger shilling," Bank of Africa said in a market briefing note.KES= KES1= ...........................Shilling spot ratesKESF= 0#KESF= .....................Shilling forward ratesEURKES= KESX= KESX1= .......................Cross ratesKES=KE ..................................Local contributorsCBKINDEX .......................Central Bank of Kenya IndexKE/DEBT .....................Kenyan Bonds contributor pagesCBK03 CBK06 KE3MTB= ...............Treasury bill yieldsCBK04 ..................Central bank open market operationsCBK07 .........................Horizontal repo transactionsKEIBR= ,CBK02 ................Daily interbank lending rate0#KETSYSTR= .............................Kenya Bond pricingECONAFRICA ..................Real time Africa economic data <ECI & AFR> ...........................African economic news.NSE20 .................................NSE-20 Share Index.NASI .................................NSE All Share Index.FTFNKEN1 ...........................FT NSE Kenya 15 Index.FTFNKEN2 .......................... FT NSE Kenya 25 Index SPEED GUIDES:REUTERS KES/1 KE/DEBT MONEY KE/EQUITY (Reporting by Richard Lough; Editing by George Obulutsa and Kevin Liffey) ((Email: nairobi.newsroom@reuters.com)(Tel: +254 20 221 4608)(Reuters Messaging: richard.lough.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net)) Keywords: KENYA MARKETS/
Kenya's shilling holds in a narrow range
NAIROBI, May 5 (Reuters) - Kenya&aposs shilling dipped 0.2 percent in early trading on Monday before recouping the losses as some commercial banks booked profit on long dollar positions, a senior currency trader said. At 0700 GMT leading commercial lenders quoted the shilling KES= at 86.85/95 to the dollar, matching Friday&aposs closing price. The local currency has held its
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