Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) ended Tuesday’s trading session with a negative performance after the EGX30 index retreated by 1.14% to 29,564.21 points.
The Sharia-compliant index, EGX33 Shariah index, went down by 1.76% to 3,098.13 points.
Likewise, both the EGX70 index and EGX100 index ended the session lower by 3.39% at 8,342.04 points and by 3.01% at 11,402.44 points, respectively.
The turnover stood at EGP 4.171 billion through the exchange of 3.372 billion shares over 120,701 transactions, while the market capitalization reached EGP 2.186 trillion.
Institutions made up 21.78% of the total trading, while individuals accounted for 78.21%.
Egyptian investors accounted for 86.2% of trading transactions, whereas Arab and foreign traders represented 7.35% and 6.45%, respectively.
Egyptian and Arab traders were sellers with EGP 9.189 million and EGP 54.024 million, respectively. Meanwhile, the non-Arab foreign traders were net buyers with EGP 63.213 million.