Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange’s (EGX) indices have closed Wednesday’s trading session in the red territory, with the market capitalization at EGP 2.182 trillion.
The benchmark EGX30 index lost 0.04%, ending the session at 30,414.05 points.
The small- and mid-cap EGX70 equal-weight index (EWI) shed 0.38% to close at 7,831.86 points, while the EGX100 EWI slipped 0.21% at 11,025.42 points.
The sharia-compliant index, EGX33 Shariah index, edged down 0.05%, finishing the session at 3,187.46 points.
Today’s trading saw 1.108 billion shares exchanged over 138,626 transactions, garnering a turnover of EGP 5.750 billion.
Retail investors controlled 72.09% of total trading transactions, while institutional investors seized 27.9% of trading.
Egyptian traders constituted 89.02% of total trading transactions, while Arab and foreign investors accounted for 5.49% and 5.48%, respectively.
Egyptian and Arab traders were net buyers with EGP 348.364 million and EGP 14.593 million, respectively. Foreign investors were net sellers with EGP 362.958 million.