Arab Finance: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) showed a mixed performance on Wednesday, with the EGX30 index up by 0.37% to 30,876.44 points.
The Sharia-compliant index, EGX33 Shariah index, retreated by 0.13% to 3,298.01 points.
Meanwhile, the small- and mid-cap EGX70 equal-weight index (EWI) and EGX100 index closed the session lower by 1.08% at 8,533.32 points and by 0.79% at 11,840.45 points, respectively.
The turnover stood at EGP 3.624 billion through the exchange of 1.236 billion shares over 74,006 transactions, while the market capitalization reached EGP 2.279 trillion.
The institutions accounted for 38.73% of the total trading, while retail investors made up the remaining 61.26% of trading.
Egyptian investors controlled 78.68% of the trading transactions, whereas Arab and foreign traders represented 13.29% and 8.03% of the trading transactions, respectively.
Foreign and Egyptian investors were sellers with EGP 215.453 million and EGP 382.907 million, respectively, while the Arab traders were buyers with EGP 598.360 million.