Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) showed a varied performance on Monday, with the EGX30 index falling by 0.36% to 29,905.41 points.
The Sharia-compliant index, EGX33 Shariah index, also retreated by 0.45% to 3,153.78 points.
On the other hand, the EGX70 index and EGX100 index went up by 0.28% to 8,634.44 points and by 0.12% to 11,756.69 points, respectively.
The EGX’s turnover hit EGP 3.921 billion after 3.315 billion shares were traded over 105,207 transactions. The market capitalization stood at EGP 2.218 trillion.
Egyptian investors accounted for 88.33% of trading transactions, while foreign and Arab traders represented 6.89% and 4.78%, respectively.
Retail investors controlled 77.76% of the total trading, whereas the institutions made up the remaining 22.23%.
Arab and foreign traders were sellers with EGP 161.021 million and EGP 14.648 million, respectively. Meanwhile, the Egyptian traders were buyers with EGP 175.670 million.