Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange’s (EGX) indices moved upwardly on Sunday, with the trading session closing at a market capitalization of EGP 1.923 trillion.
The benchmark EGX30 index gained 0.84%, ending the session at 28,602.14 points.
The small- and mid-cap EGX70 equal-weight index (EWI) added 1.13% to conclude the session at 6,293.21 points, while the EGX100 EWI grew by 0.91% at 9,140.49 points.
The sharia-compliant index, EGX33 Shariah index, added 0.23%, closing the session at 2,775.25 points.
Today’s trading saw 1.005 billion shares exchanged over 106,303 transactions, generating a turnover of about EGP 3.795 billion.
Retail investors controlled 82.04% of total trading transactions, while institutional investors seized 17.95% of trading.
Egyptian traders constituted 92.84% of total trading transactions, while Arab and foreign investors accounted for 5.27% and 1.9%, respectively.
Egyptian investors were net purchasers with EGP 117.647 million. Arab and foreign were net sellers with EGP 6.324 million and EGP 111.322 million, respectively.