Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange’s (EGX) indices saw collective gains at Wednesday’s close, with a market capitalization of EGP 2.182 trillion.
The benchmark EGX30 index gained 1.03%, ending the session at 30,584.24 points.
The small- and mid-cap EGX70 equal-weight index (EWI) added 3.04% to close the session at 7,569.6 points, while the EGX100 EWI grew by 2.52% at 10,713.28 points.
The Sharia-compliant index EGX33 went up by 1.70%, closing the session at 3,186.14 points.
Today’s trading saw 738.888 million shares exchanged over 119,337 transactions, garnering a turnover of EGP 4.672 billion.
Retail investors controlled 71.42% of total trading transactions, while institutional investors seized 28.57% of trading.
Egyptian traders constituted 87.8% of total trading transactions, while Arab and foreign investors accounted for 4.93% and 7.27%, respectively.
Arab and foreign investors were net sellers with EGP 18.426 million and EGP 7.175 million, respectively. Egyptian traders were net buyers with EGP 25.601 million.