Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) showed a mixed performance on Wednesday, with the EGX30 index rising by 0.33% to 29,661.99 points.
The Sharia-compliant index, EGX33 Shariah index, also went up by 0.18% to 3,103.77 points.
On the other hand, the small- and mid-cap EGX70 equal-weight index (EWI) edged down by 0.14% to 8,330.53 points.
Meanwhile, the EGX100 index closed the session higher by 0.02% at 11,405.26 points.
The turnover reached EGP 3.491 billion after 2.447 billion shares were exchanged during the session over 97,735 transactions, while the market capitalization hit EGP 2.189 trillion.
Retail investors controlled 70.66% of the total trading, while the institutions made up the remaining 29.33%.
Egyptian investors accounted for 84.93% of trading transactions, whereas foreign and Arab traders represented 10.38% and 4.69%, respectively.
Non-Arab foreign traders were net buyers with EGP 361.649 million. Meanwhile, the Egyptian and Arab traders were sellers with EGP 222.236 million and EGP 139.413 million, respectively.