Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange’s (EGX) indices witnessed a positive performance on Sunday, with market capitalization standing at EGP 2.289 trillion.
The benchmark EGX30 index rose by 0.72% and ended the trading session higher at 31,060.51 points.
The Sharia-compliant index, EGX33 Shariah index, gained 1.11%, concluding the session at 3,227.55 points.
Both small- and mid-cap EGX70 equal-weight index (EWI) and EGX100 index closed the session up by 0.32% to 8,587.11 points and by 0.46% to 11,800.69 points, respectively.
EGX’s turnover hit EGP 4.734 billion after 998.573 million shares were exchanged through 113,454 transactions.
Individuals represented 67.92% of the total trading transactions, while the institutions controlled the remaining 32.07% of trading.
Egyptian traders made up 79.13% of total trading transactions, while Arab and foreign investors accounted for 11.82% and 9.05%, respectively.
Foreign traders were net sellers with EGP 742.49 million. Arab and Egyptian traders were net buyers with EGP 719.70 million and EGP 22.79 million, respectively.