Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange’s (EGX) indices have closed Sunday’s trading session in the red territory, with the market capitalization at EGP 2.272 trillion.
The benchmark EGX30 index lost 0.67%, ending the session at 31,252.07 points.
The small- and mid-cap EGX70 equal-weight index (EWI) shed 0.04% to close at 8,403.85 points, while the EGX100 EWI slipped 0.19% at 11,644.97 points.
The sharia-compliant index, EGX33 Shariah index, edged down 0.45%, finishing the session at 3,217.13 points.
Today’s trading saw 1.244 billion shares exchanged over 95,512 transactions, garnering a turnover of EGP 2.802 billion.
Retail investors controlled 82.69% of total trading transactions, while institutional investors seized 17.3% of trading.
Egyptian traders constituted 94.06% of total trading transactions, while Arab and foreign investors accounted for 5.19% and 0.75%, respectively.
Arab and foreign traders were net sellers with EGP 49.812 million and EGP 15.706 million, respectively. Egyptian investors were net buyers with EGP 65.518 million.