Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) closed Wednesday’s trading session with a mixed performance, with the benchmark EGX30 index up 0.40% to 30,739.26 points.
On the other hand, the Sharia-compliant index, EGX33 Shariah index, declined by 0.03% to 3,172.35 points.
Both the small- and mid-cap EGX70 equal-weight index (EWI) and EGX100 index ended the session higher by 0.81% at 8,520.61 points and 0.50% at 11,677.75 points, respectively.
A total of 1.340 billion shares were traded at a value of EGP 3.671 billion through 99,632 transactions, while the market capitalization reached EGP 2.260 trillion.
Retail investors accounted for 78.75% of the total trading transactions, whereas institutions made up 21.24% of trading.
Egyptian investors controlled 88.71%. Arab and foreign traders represented 6.37% and 4.92% of the trading transactions, respectively.
Arab traders were net buyers with EGP 89.33 million. Egyptian and foreign traders were net sellers with EGP 57.23 million and EGP 32.09 million, respectively.