Kenyan bank shares fall after lending rates capped

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan bank shares fell sharply at the start of trade on Thursday after the country's president signed a law capping commercial banks' interest rates. Shares in KCB Group, which operates Kenya's biggest bank by assets, fell 9.9 percent to trade at 29.50 shillings ($0.2912) per share. Shares in Co-op Bank of Kenya and Equity Bank were down by a similar margin. Traders said there were millions of shares on offer without matching bids. ($1 = 101.3000 Kenyan shillings) (Reporting by Duncan Miriri and George Obulutsa; editing by Jason Neely)