Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) showed a negative performance on Tuesday, with the EGX30 index down by 0.48% to 2,9973.15 points.
The Sharia-compliant index, EGX33 Shariah index, also fell by 0.38% to 3,082.47 points.
Likewise, the small- and mid-cap EGX70 equal-weight index (EWI) and EGX100 index closed the session lower by 0.44% at 8,190.91 points and by 0.41% at 11,251.98 points, respectively.
The turnover stood at EGP 2.44 billion through the exchange of 980.90 million shares over 80,800 transactions, while the market capitalization amounted to EGP 2.18 trillion.
The institutions accounted for 27.97% of the total trading, while retail investors made up the remaining 72.02% of trading.
Egyptian investors equaled 88.46% of the trading transactions, whereas Arab and foreign traders represented 6.88% and 4.66% of the trading transactions, respectively.
Foreign and Egyptian investors were buyers with EGP 39.66 million and EGP 7.89 million, respectively. Meanwhile, the Arab traders were sellers with EGP 47.55 million.