Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange’s (EGX) indices showed an upward trend on Thursday, with market capitalization hitting EGP 2.270 trillion.
The benchmark EGX30 index gained 0.02%, finishing the session at 30,839.57 points.
The small- and mid-cap EGX70 equal-weight index (EWI) added 0.73% to close at 8,559.56 points, while the EGX100 index increased by 0.66%, ending the session at 11,746.58 points.
The Sharia-compliant index, EGX33 Shariah index, added 0.40%, concluding the session at 3,192.21 points.
Trading volume amounted to 1.423 billion shares exchanged through 112,599 transactions at a turnover of EGP 12.599 billion.
Retail investors controlled 77.22% of total trading transactions, while institutional investors made up 22.77% of trading.
Egyptian traders made up 96% of total trading transactions, while Arab and foreign investors accounted for 1.75% and 2.25%, respectively.
Egyptian and Arab investors were net sellers with EGP 78.463 million and EGP 45.816 million, respectively. Foreign traders were net buyers with EGP 124.280 million.