Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange’s (EGX) indices saw gains at Wednesday’s close, with a market capitalization of EGP 2.251 trillion.
The benchmark EGX30 index gained 0.67%, ending the session at 30,832.61 points.
The small- and mid-cap EGX70 equal-weight index (EWI) added 0.44% to close the session at 8,497.54 points, while the EGX100 EWI grew by 0.57% at 11,669.2 points.
The Sharia-compliant index EGX33 went up by 1%, closing the session at 3,179.56 points.
Today’s trading saw 1.315 million shares exchanged over 127,145 transactions, garnering a turnover of EGP 8.921 billion.
Retail investors controlled 41.92% of total trading transactions, while institutional investors seized 58.07% of trading.
Egyptian traders constituted 92.5% of total trading transactions, while Arab and foreign investors accounted for 4.37% and 3.14%, respectively.
Arab and foreign investors were net buyers with EGP 157.320 million and EGP 272.231 million, respectively. Egyptian traders were net sellers with EGP 429.552 million.