Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) ended Tuesday’s trading session with a mixed performance, with the EGX30 index down by 0.32% to 29,646.6 points.
The Sharia-compliant index, EGX33 Shariah index, also fell by 0.01% to 3,152.17 points.
On the other hand, the small- and mid-cap EGX70 equal-weight index (EWI) and EGX100 index closed the session up by 1.53% at 8,516.83 points and by 1.08% at 11,623.06 points, respectively.
A total of 1.220 billion shares were exchanged at a value of EGP 3.830 billion over 102,717 transactions. Meanwhile, the market capitalization stood at EGP 2.212 trillion.
Retail investors equaled 78.66% of trading, while the institutions made up the remaining 21.33%.
Arab and foreign traders represented 5.31% and 3.71% of the trading transactions, respectively. Meanwhile, Egyptian investors accounted for 90.99%.
Egyptian traders were sellers with EGP 154.160 million. Arab and foreign investors were buyers with EGP 78.442 million and EGP 75.717 million, respectively.