Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) ended Thursday’s trading session in the green zone, with the EGX30 index up by 0.93% to 30,011.84 points.
The Sharia-compliant index, EGX33 Shariah, also increased by 0.74% to 3,166.02 points.
Both the small- and mid-cap EGX70 equal-weight index (EWI) and EGX100 index concluded the session higher by 0.81% at 8,609.99 points and by 0.68% at 11,731.98 points, respectively.
The EGX’s turnover hit EGP 3.105 billion after 2.100 billion shares were traded over 91,236 transactions, while the market capitalization reached EGP 2.221 trillion.
Egyptian investors covered 92.88% of the trading transactions, while Arab and foreign traders represented 4.48% and 2.64% of the trading transactions, respectively.
Reial investors controlled 83.25% of the total trading, while the institutions made up the remaining 16.74%.
Foreign and Egyptian traders were buyers with EGP 74.007 million and EGP 45.452 million, respectively, while the Arab investors were sellers with EGP 119.459 million.