Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) showed a varied performance on Wednesday, with the EGX30 index closing the trading session up by 0.94% to 30,875.28 points.
Likewise, the Sharia-compliant index, EGX33 Shariah index, rose by 0.41% to 3,203.74 points.
The EGX100 index also went up by 0.19% at 11,824.94 points.
On the other hand, the EGX70 index ended the session lower by 0.05% at 8,587.05 points.
EGX’s turnover hit EGP 4.515 billion through the exchange of 1.708 billion shares over 93,978 transactions, while the market capitalization reached EGP 2.260 trillion.
Institutions represented 27.05% of the total trading, while retail investors accounted for 72.94%.
Egyptian investors controlled 87.8% of trading transactions, while foreign and Arab traders equaled 7.14% and 5.06%, respectively.
Non-Arab foreigners were net buyers with EGP 196.471 million. Egyptian and Arab traders were sellers with EGP 123.276 million and EGP 73.471 million, respectively.