Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange’s (EGX) indices saw gains at Sunday’s close, with a market capitalization of EGP 2.267 trillion.
The benchmark EGX30 index gained 0.41%, ending the session at 31,394.33 points.
The small- and mid-cap EGX70 equal-weight index (EWI) added 1.43% to close the session at 8,363.15 points, while the EGX100 EWI grew by 1.07% at 11,628.24 points.
The Sharia-compliant index EGX33 went up by 0.39%, closing the session at 3,265.94 points.
Today’s trading saw 1.270 billion shares exchanged over 115,331 transactions, garnering a turnover of EGP 3.477 billion.
Retail investors controlled 82.55% of total trading transactions, while institutional investors seized 17.44% of trading.
Egyptian traders constituted 94.13% of total trading transactions, while Arab and foreign investors accounted for 4.84% and 1.04%, respectively.
Egyptian and Arab investors were net purchasers with EGP 38.495 million and EGP 22.249 million, respectively. Foreign traders were net sellers with EGP 60.745 million.