Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange’s (EGX) indices have closed Tuesday’s trading session in the red territory, with the market capitalization at EGP 1.818 trillion.
The benchmark EGX30 index shed 4.86%, wrapping up the session at 26,777.05 points.
The small- and mid-cap EGX70 equal-weight index (EWI) inched down 5.06% to end the session at 6,213.97 points, while the EGX100 EWI lost 5.03% at 8,817.36 points.
Today’s trading saw 846.204 million shares exchanged over 16,903 transactions, with a turnover of EGP 3.689 billion.
Retail investors controlled 69.01% of total trading transactions, while institutional investors seized 30.98% of trading.
Egyptian traders made up 85.58% of total trading transactions, while Arab and foreign investors accounted for 3.64% and 10.78%, respectively.
Egyptian investors were net sellers with EGP 149.562 million. Arab and foreign investors were net buyers with EGP 14.257 million and EGP 135.305 million, respectively.