Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange’s (EGX) indices witnessed a bullish trend on Sunday, with market capitalization hitting EGP 2.105 trillion.
The benchmark EGX30 index gained 0.33%, ending the session at 31,038.41 points.
The small- and mid-cap EGX70 equal-weight index (EWI) added 1.89% to close the session at 7,234.73 points, while the EGX100 EWI grew by 1.63% at 10,335.77 points.
The Sharia-compliant index, EGX33 Shariah index, went up by 0.79%, closing the session at 2,978.99 points.
Today’s trading saw 755.812 million shares exchanged over 98,034 transactions, garnering a turnover of EGP 3.708 billion.
Retail investors controlled 75% of total trading transactions, while institutional investors seized 24.99% of trading.
Egyptian traders constituted 90.78% of total trading transactions, while Arab and foreign investors accounted for 5.83% and 3.4%, respectively.
Egyptian investors were net sellers with EGP 160.594 million. Arab and foreign traders were net buyers with EGP 111.285 million and EGP 49.309 million, respectively.