Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange’s (EGX) indices showed an upward trend on Monday, with market capitalization hitting EGP 2.184 trillion.
The benchmark EGX30 index gained 0.41%, finishing the session at 31,587.04 points.
The small- and mid-cap EGX70 equal-weight index (EWI) added 0.64% to close at 7,538.3 points, while the EGX100 index increased by 0.59%, ending the session at 10,732.02 points.
The Sharia-compliant index, EGX33 Shariah index, added 0.90%, concluding the session at 3,126.92 points.
Trading volume amounted to 956.403 million shares exchanged through 125,671 transactions at a turnover of EGP 5.086 billion.
Retail investors controlled 71.37% of total trading transactions, while institutional investors made up 28.62% of trading.
Egyptian traders made up 85.98% of total trading transactions, while Arab and foreign investors accounted for 6.8% and 7.22%, respectively.
Egyptian and Arab investors were net purchasers with EGP 166.396 million and EGP 62.361 million, respectively. Non-Arab foreign traders were net sellers with EGP 228.757 million.