Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange’s (EGX) indices have closed Sunday’s trading session in the red territory, with the market capitalization at EGP 1.691 trillion.
The benchmark EGX30 index shed 4.93%, wrapping up the session at 24,639.63 points.
The small- and mid-cap EGX70 equal-weight index (EWI) inched down 4.72% to end the session at 5,714.19 points, while the EGX100 EWI lost 4.84% at 8,097.97 points.
Today’s trading saw 697.266 million shares exchanged over 90,103 transactions, with a turnover of EGP 2.299 billion.
Retail investors controlled 74.49% of total trading transactions, while institutional investors seized 25.5% of trading.
Egyptian traders made up 95.32% of total trading transactions, while Arab and foreign investors accounted for 2.01% and 2.67%, respectively.
Arab investors were net sellers with EGP 32.727 million. Egyptian and foreign investors were net sellers with EGP 21.038 million and EGP 11.689 million, respectively.