Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) has seen a varied performance at Monday’s close, with the EGX33 Shariah index being the sole loser.
Market capitalization concluded the session at EGP 1.979 trillion.
The benchmark EGX30 index edged up 0.73%, finishing the session at 28,992.34 points.
The small- and mid-cap EGX70 equal-weight index (EWI) gained 0.39% to end at 6,634.91 points, while the EGX100 EWI added 0.22%, closing at 9,527.72 points.
The sharia-compliant index, EGX33 Shariah index, lost 0.24%, concluding the session at 2,774.72 points.
Today’s trading saw 1.335 billion shares exchanged over 125,513 transactions, with a turnover of EGP 4.825 billion.
Retail investors controlled 76.71% of total trading transactions, while institutional investors seized 23.28% of trading.
Egyptian traders constituted 89.75% of total trading transactions, while Arab and foreign investors accounted for 7.18% and 3.07%, respectively.
Egyptian investors were net sellers with EGP 20.54 million. Arab and non-Arab foreign traders were net buyers with EGP 7.732 million and EGP 12.809 million, respectively.