nairobi stock exchange. has been felt has been in south africa where stock market the stock market has fallen about 6 percent and that's the lowest level we've seen since the 2008 financial crisis. underperform during the day or subtle. is a chemical. company. the stock fell more than 40 percent and that's i mean it's. compounding the problem that this company has been having in the market because as you would remember they've got the giant project in the us call which is aimed at you know boosting its chemical you know it's a chemical output and produces fleets reliance on. on full. so tell me is that talk of stimulus measures to soften this blow. as yet there hasn't been any talk of something like that. as well as as this has just happened i think the news broke at the weekend when the saudis decided to you know it's too used to gate a price war with russia so i think. if they are thinking about it they it's something that you know they would you would they would have to do in the coming days or not with a

and there has also and it's definitely also affected the economy because traders at the nairobi stop its stock exchange day for example stop trading for a while. basically analysts say that they will they will basically take the we can to assess the situation what this means for the country and for trading and before they go back to the trade markets on monday. let me just ask you we're half a dozen african countries have announced confirmed to veterans in the past 24 hours . is africa well they have of course spreading rapidly i mean worldwide but africa has been pretty lucky that at least till now they have only had a few cases in most countries so they have had a bit of a while to prepare and but many. many countries of course concern that the health systems which already stretched my to be affected and might not be able to deal with more than just a few cases so unequal thank you very much for the information. so how have african markets fared this week not especially good for the confidence major exchanges south africa's benchmark index the j.i.c. africa shed down big time since monday as you can