Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange’s (EGX) indices have closed Monday’s trading session in the red territory, with the market capitalization at EGP 2.226 trillion.
The benchmark EGX30 index lost 0.42%, ending the session at 30,270.51 points.
The small- and mid-cap EGX70 equal-weight index (EWI) shed 0.42% to close at 8,325.42 points, while the EGX100 EWI slipped 0.51% to 11,456.15 points.
The sharia-compliant index, EGX33 Shariah index, edged down 0.27%, finishing the session at 3,129.16 points.
Today’s trading saw 1.117 billion shares exchanged over 95,761 transactions, garnering a turnover of EGP 3.732 billion.
Retail investors controlled 62.07% of total trading transactions, while institutional investors seized 37.92% of trading.
Egyptian traders constituted 74.1% of total trading transactions, while Arab and foreign investors accounted for 7.22% and 18.68%, respectively.
Egyptian and Arab traders were net sellers with EGP 56.138 billion and EGP 21.015 million, respectively. Foreign investors were net buyers with EGP 77.153 billion.