Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange’s (EGX) indices have finished Monday’s trading on a mixed note.
Market capitalization closed the session at nearly EGP 1.831 trillion.
The benchmark EGX30 index went down 0.59%, recording 26,902.4 points.
The small- and mid-cap EGX70 (EWI) added 0.11% to 6,109.78 points at the end of the session, while the EGX100 inched down 0.03%, notching 8,808.14 points.
The sharia-compliant index, EGX33 Shariah index, lost 0.62%, closing the session at 2,660.88 points.
Today’s trading saw million 1.157 billion shares exchanged over 105,295 transactions, with a turnover of EGP 3.739 billion.
As regards investor’s trading activity, retail investors seized 66.94% of total trading transactions, while institutional investors made up 33.05% of trading.
Egyptian traders constituted 85.42% of total trading transactions, while Arab and foreign investors accounted for 4.89% and 9.68%, respectively.
Foreign traders were net sellers with EGP 197.168 million. Egyptian and Arab investors were net buyers with EGP 195.142 million and EGP 2.025 million, respectively.