Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange’s (EGX) indices have closed Sunday’s trading session in the red territory, with the market capitalization at EGP 2.120 trillion.
The benchmark EGX30 index lost 2.04%, ending the session at 29,528.79 points.
The small- and mid-cap EGX70 equal-weight index (EWI) shed 1.85% to close at 7,526.14 points, while the EGX100 EWI slipped 1.77% at 10,588.74 points.
The sharia-compliant index, EGX33 Shariah index, edged down 2.20%, finishing the session at 3,083.19 points.
Today’s trading saw 689.693 billion shares exchanged over 128,673 transactions, garnering a turnover of EGP 4.196 billion.
Retail investors controlled 77.73% of total trading transactions, while institutional investors seized 22.26% of trading.
Egyptian traders constituted 93.92% of total trading transactions, while Arab and foreign investors accounted for 3.69% and 2.4%, respectively.
Egyptian and Arab traders were net sellers with EGP 33.811 million and EGP 332,661, respectively. Foreign investors were net buyers with EGP 34.144 million.