Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) showed a varied performance on Wednesday, with the EGX30 index rising by 0.23% to 29,735.59 points.
Both the small- and mid-cap EGX70 equal-weight index (EWI) and EGX100 index closed the session higher by 0.08% at 8,541.02 points and by 0.02% at 11,652.88 points, respectively.
Meanwhile, the Sharia-compliant index, EGX33 Shariah index, went down by 0.13% to 3,142.78 points.
A total of 2.235 billion shares were exchanged at EGP 3.045 billion over 89,767 transactions, while the market capitalization stood at EGP 2.206 trillion.
Egyptian investors controlled 88.03% of the trading transactions, while foreign and Arab traders made up 6.91% and 5.06% of the trading transactions, respectively.
Individuals represented 77.23% of the total trading, while the institutions covered the remaining 22.76%.
Foreign and Arab traders were buyers with EGP 93.828 million and EGP 30.797 million, respectively, while the Egyptian traders were sellers with EGP 124.625 million.