Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) closed Sunday’s trading session with a positive performance, with the EGX30 index up by 1.49% to 30,443.82 points.
Likewise, the Sharia-compliant index, EGX33 Shariah index, increased by 1.40% to 3,163.9 points.
Both the EGX70 and EGX100 index went up by 1.94% to 8,402.97 points and by 2.01% to 11,735.55 points, respectively.
A total of 1.772 billion shares were exchanged over 96,564 transactions at a value of EGP 3.430 billion, while the market capitalization reached EGP 2.241 trillion.
Retail investors controlled 84.02% of the total trading, while institutions made up 15.97%.
Egyptian investors represented 93.96% of trading transactions, while Arab and foreign traders accounted for 5.08% and 0.96%, respectively.
Arab traders were net buyers with EGP 39.099 million, whereas foreign and Egyptian traders were sellers with EGP 30.989 million and EGP 8.110 million, respectively.