Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) ended Thursday’s trading session higher, with the EGX30 index up by 1.13% to 29,997.11 points.
The Sharia-compliant index, EGX33 Shariah index, also rose by 0.53% to 3,120.12 points.
Both the EGX70 and EGX100 index went by 0.87% to 8,402.97 points and 11,504.52 points, respectively.
A total of 2.693 billion shares were exchanged over 85,543 transactions at a value of EGP 47.859 billion, while the market capitalization hit EGP 2.207 trillion.
Institutions represented 48.16% of the total trading, while individuals made up the remaining 51.83%.
Egyptian investors controlled 99.34% of trading transactions, while foreign and Arab traders accounted for 0.33%, each.
Non-Arab foreign traders were net buyers with EGP 33.437 million. Meanwhile, Arab and Egyptian traders were sellers with EGP 20.589 million and EGP 12.847 million, respectively.