EGX ends Wednesday in green territory

Updated 2/14/2024 3:11:00 AM

Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) has ended Wednesday’s trading session in the green zone, and market capitalization closed at nearly EGP 2.032 trillion.

The benchmark EGX30 index gained 0.95%, finishing the session at 28,874.99 points.

The small- and mid-cap EGX70 equal-weight index (EWI) added 2.05%, notching 7,140.85 points.

Meanwhile, the EGX100 EWI edged up 1.96% to close the session at 1,0018.43 points.

Trading volume amounted to 1.730 billion shares traded through 164,159 transactions at a turnover of EGP 5.302 billion.

Retail investors controlled 84.72% of total trading transactions, while institutional investors made up 15.27% of trading.

Egyptian traders constituted 91.65% of total trading transactions, while Arab and foreign investors represented 7.08% and 1.27%, respectively.

Trading on securities saw Egyptian investors as net buyers with EGP 29.865 million, while Arab and foreign were net sellers with EGP 6.466 million and EGP 23.399 million, respectively. 

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