Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange’s (EGX) indices closed Tuesday’s trading session in the red zone, with the market capitalization at EGP 2.055 trillion.
The benchmark EGX30 index lost 0.89%, ending the session at 30,104.35 points.
The small- and mid-cap EGX70 equal-weight index (EWI) shed 0.96% to close at 7,071.56 points, while the EGX100 EWI declined by 1.02% at 10,076.87 points.
The sharia-compliant index, EGX33 Shariah index, edged down 0.78%, finishing the session at 2,913.36 points.
Today’s trading saw 1.011 billion shares exchanged over 101,844 transactions, generating a turnover of EGP 3.777 billion.
Retail investors controlled 69.41% of total trading transactions, while institutional investors seized 30.58% of trading.
Egyptian traders constituted 83.89% of total trading transactions, while Arab and foreign investors accounted for 5.21% and 10.9%, respectively.
Egyptian traders were net sellers with EGP 146.099 million. Arab and non-Arab foreigners were net buyers with EGP 45.148 million and EGP 100.951 million, respectively.