Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) closed Tuesday’s trading session with a collective fall, with the EGX30 index declining by 0.73% to 30,762.85 points.
Likewise, the Sharia-compliant index, EGX33 Shariah index, retreated by 0.07% to 3,302.46 points.
Both the EGX70 index and the EGX100 index ended the session lower by 0.22% at 8,626.4 points and by 0.28% at 11,934.24 points, respectively.
The turnover totaled EGP 3.137 billion through the exchange of 1.459 billion shares over 79,824 transactions, while the market capitalization stood at EGP 2.279 trillion.
Retail investors controlled 69.25% of the total trading, whereas the institutions represented the remaining 30.74%.
The Egyptian investors accounted for 89.36% of trading transactions, while foreign and Arab traders made up 6.03% and 4.61%, respectively.
Foreign and Arab investors were net sellers with EGP 96.597 million and EGP 45.877 million, respectively, while the Egyptian traders were buyers with EGP 142.474 million.