Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange’s (EGX) indices have closed Tuesday’s trading session in the red territory, with the market capitalization at EGP 2.241 trillion.
The benchmark EGX30 index lost 0.57%, ending the session at 30,688.3 points.
The small- and mid-cap EGX70 equal-weight index (EWI) shed 0.25% to close at 8,282.36 points, while the EGX100 EWI slipped 0.30% at 11,468.97 points.
The sharia-compliant index, EGX33 Shariah index, edged down 0.27%, finishing the session at 3,163.76 points.
Today’s trading saw 1.370 billion shares exchanged over 96,216 transactions, garnering a turnover of EGP 4.467 billion.
Retail investors controlled 71.87% of total trading transactions, while institutional investors seized 28.12% of trading.
Egyptian traders constituted 75.3% of total trading transactions, while Arab and foreign investors accounted for 21.67% and 3.03%, respectively.
Arab and foreign traders were net buyers with EGP 1.591 billion and EGP 41.225 million, respectively. Egyptian investors were net sellers with EGP 1.633 billion.